Activate The Vpn Tunnel By Pinging The Remote Endpoint - NETGEAR FVS318 - ProSafe VPN Firewall Router Reference Manual

Figure 5-32: VPN Status/Log screen
Click VPN Status
3.
Click Connect for the VPN tunnel you want to activate.
Figure 5-33: Current VPN Tunnels (SAs) screen

Activate the VPN Tunnel by Pinging the Remote Endpoint

Note: This section uses 192.168.3.1 for an example remote endpoint LAN IP address.
To activate the VPN tunnel by pinging the remote endpoint (192.168.3.1), do the following steps
depending on whether your configuration is client-to-gateway or gateway-to-gateway:
• Client-to-Gateway Configuration—to check the VPN Connection, you can initiate a request
from the remote PC to the FVS318v3's network by using the "Connect" option in the
NETGEAR ProSafe menu bar. The NETGEAR ProSafe client will report the results of the
attempt to connect. Since the remote PC has a dynamically assigned WAN IP address, it must
initiate the request.
To perform a ping test using our example, start from the remote PC:
Basic Virtual Private Networking
Reference Manual for the ProSafe VPN Firewall FVS318v3
(Figure 5-32) to get the Current VPN Tunnels (SAs) screen
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(Figure 5-33).
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