The Ipsec Vpn Monitor Screen; Technical Reference; Ipsec Architecture - ZyXEL Communications VMG8324-B10A series User Manual

Chapter 20 VPN

20.4 The IPSec VPN Monitor Screen

Use this screen to check your VPN tunnel's current status. You can also manually trigger a VPN
tunnel to the remote network. Click Security > IPSec VPN > Monitor to open this screen as
shown next.
Figure 138 Security > IPSec VPN > Monitor
This screen contains the following fields:
Table 105 Security > IPSec VPN > Monitor
LABEL
Refresh Interval
Status
Connection Name
Remote Gateway
Local Addresses
Remote
Addresses
Action

20.5 Technical Reference

This section provides some technical background information about the topics covered in this
section.

20.5.1 IPSec Architecture

The overall IPSec architecture is shown as follows.
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DESCRIPTION
Select how often you want the Device to update this screen. Select No Refresh to have
the Device stop updating the screen.
This displays a green line between two hosts if the VPN tunnel has been established
successfully. Otherwise, it displays a red line in between.
This displays the name of the VPN policy.
This is the IP address of the remote IPSec router in the IKE SA.
This displays the IP address(es) on the LAN behind your Device.
This displays the IP address(es) on the LAN behind the remote IPSec router.
Click Trigger to establish a VPN connection with the remote network.
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