Cabling And Computer Hardware Requirements; Computer Network Configuration Requirements - NETGEAR ProSafe FVS336Gv2 Reference Manual

ProSAFE Dual WAN Gigabit WAN SSL VPN Firewall FVS336Gv2
• If your ISP charges by the volume of data traffic each month, consider enabling
the VPN firewall's traffic meter to monitor or limit your traffic.
Customer premises
VPN
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Figure 13. Planning for route diversity
b. Contact a Dynamic DNS service and register FQDNs for one or both WAN ports.
3. Plan your network management approach.
• The VPN firewall can be managed remotely but you must enable remote
management locally after each factory default reset.
NETGEAR strongly advises you to change the default management password to a
strong password before enabling remote management.
• If the factory default settings are not suitable for your installation, you can choose
various WAN options. These options include enabling a WAN port to respond to a
ping, and setting MTU size, port speed, and upload bandwidth.
4. Prepare to physically connect the firewall to your cable or DSL modems and a computer.
Instructions for connecting the VPN firewall are in the ProSAFE Gigabit Quad WAN SSL
VPN Firewall FVS336Gv2 Installation Guide.

Cabling and Computer Hardware Requirements

For you to use the VPN firewall in your network, each computer must have an Ethernet
network interface card (NIC) installed and must be equipped with an Ethernet cable. If the
computer connects to your network at 100 Mbps or higher speeds, you must use a
Category 5 (Cat 5) cable.

Computer Network Configuration Requirements

The VPN firewall integrates a web management interface. To access the configuration
screens on the VPN firewall, you must use a Java-enabled web browser that supports HTTP
uploads, such as the most recent version of Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer,
Mozilla Firefox, or Apple Safari with JavaScript, cookies, and SSL enabled. Free browsers
are readily available for Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX/Linux.
For the initial connection to the Internet and configuration of the VPN firewall, you must
connect a computer to the VPN firewall and the computer must be configured to
automatically get its TCP/IP configuration from the VPN firewall through DHCP.
The DSL broadband access device or router must provide a standard Ethernet interface.
Route diversity
WAN port 1 Physical facility 1
WAN port 2 Physical facility 2
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