Chapter 15 IPSec VPN

15.4 The General Screen

Click Security > VPN to display the Summary screen. This is a read-only menu of your VPN rules (tunnels). Edit a VPN rule by clicking the Edit icon.

Figure 130 Security > VPN > General

The following table describes the fields in this screen.

Table 67 Security > VPN > General

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

#

This is the VPN policy index number.

 

 

Active

This field displays whether the VPN policy is active or not.

 

This icon is turned on when the rule is enabled.

 

 

Local Addr.

This displays the beginning and ending (static) IP addresses or a (static)

 

IP address and a subnet mask of computer(s) on your local network

 

behind your NBG-460N.

 

 

Remote Addr.

This displays the beginning and ending (static) IP addresses or a (static)

 

IP address and a subnet mask of computer(s) on the remote network

 

behind the remote IPSec router.

 

This field displays 0.0.0.0 when the Secure Gateway Address field

 

displays 0.0.0.0. In this case only the remote IPSec router can initiate

 

the VPN.

 

 

Encap.

This field displays Tunnel or Transport mode (Tunnel is the default

 

selection).

 

 

Algorithm

This field displays the security protocol, encryption algorithm and

 

authentication algorithm used for an SA.

 

 

Gateway

This is the static WAN IP address or URL of the remote IPSec router. This

 

field displays 0.0.0.0 when you configure the Secure Gateway Address

 

field in the Rule Setup screen to 0.0.0.0.

 

 

Modify

Click the Edit icon to go to the screen where you can edit the VPN rule.

 

Click the Remove icon to remove an existing VPN rule.

 

 

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