ProSecure Unified Threat Management (UTM) Appliance

Table 74. Add New VPN Policy screen settings (continued)

Setting

Description

 

 

 

Enable Keepalive

Select a radio button to specify if keep-alive is enabled:

 

Yes. This feature is enabled: Periodically, the UTM sends keep-alive

Note: See also

requests (ping packets) to the remote endpoint to keep the tunnel alive. You

need to specify the ping IP address in the Ping IP Address field, the

Configure Keep-Alives

detection period in the Detection Period field, and the maximum number of

and Dead Peer

keep-alive requests that the UTM sends in the Reconnect after failure count

Detection on page 328.

field.

 

 

No. This feature is disabled. This is the default setting.

 

 

 

 

Ping IP Address

The IP address that the UTM pings. The address needs to

 

 

be of a host that can respond to ICMP ping requests.

 

 

 

 

Detection Period

The period in seconds between the keep-alive requests. The

 

 

default setting is 10 seconds.

 

Reconnect after

The maximum number of keep-alive requests before the

 

failure count

UTM tears down the connection and then attempts to

 

 

reconnect to the remote endpoint. The default setting is

 

 

3 keep-alive requests.

 

 

 

Traffic Selection

 

 

 

 

 

Local IP

From the drop-down list, select the address or addresses that are part of the

 

VPN tunnel on the UTM:

 

Any. All computers and devices on the network.

 

Single. A single IP address on the network. Enter the IP address in the Start

 

IP Address field.

 

Range. A range of IP addresses on the network. Enter the starting IP

 

address in the Start IP Address field and the ending IP address in the End

 

IP Address field.

 

Subnet. A subnet on the network. Enter the starting IP address in the Start

 

IP Address field and the subnet mask in the Subnet Mask field.

 

Note: You cannot select Any for both the UTM and the remote endpoint.

Remote IP

From the drop-down list, select the address or addresses that are part of the

 

VPN tunnel on the remote endpoint. The selections are the same as for the

 

Local IP drop-down list.

Manual Policy Parameters

Note: These fields apply only when you select Manual Policy as the policy type. When you specify the settings for the fields in this section, a security association (SA) is created.

SPI-Incoming

The Security Parameters Index (SPI) for the inbound policy. Enter a

 

hexadecimal value between 3 and 8 characters (for example, 0x1234).

 

 

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