About This Manual; Audience, Scope, Conventions, And Formats - NETGEAR FVX538 - ProSafe VPN Firewall 200 Router Reference Manual

This chapter describes the intended audience, scope, conventions, and formats of this manual.

Audience, Scope, Conventions, and Formats

This reference manual assumes that the reader has basic to intermediate computer and Internet
skills. However, basic computer network, Internet, firewall, and VPN technologies tutorial
information is provided in the Appendices and on the Netgear website.
This guide uses the following typographical conventions:
Table 1-1. Typographical Conventions
italics
bold
fixed
This guide uses the following formats to highlight special messages:
Note: This format is used to highlight information of importance or special interest.
This manual is written for the FVX538 VPN firewall according to these specifications.:
Table 1-2. Manual Scope
Product Version
Manual Publication Date
Note: Product updates are available on the NETGEAR, Inc. Web site at
http://kbserver.netgear.com/products/FVX538.asp.

About This Manual

Emphasis, books, CDs, URL names
User input
Screen text, file and server names, extensions, commands, IP addresses
FVX538 ProSafe VPN Firewall 200
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