NETGEAR FVS318G Reference Manual page 253

NETGEAR ProSAFE VPN Firewall FVS318G v2
Table 53. Add New VPN Policy screen settings for IPv4 and IPv6 (continued)
Setting
Policy Type
Remote Endpoint
Enable NetBIOS?
Enable Auto Initiate
Enable Keepalive
Note: See also
Configure Keep-Alives
and Dead Peer Detection
on page 276.
Virtual Private Networking Using IPSec and L2TP Connections
Description
From the list, select the policy type:
• Auto Policy. Some settings (the ones in the Manual Policy Parameters
section) for the VPN tunnel are generated automatically.
• Manual Policy. All settings must be specified manually, including the ones
in the Manual Policy Parameters section.
Select how the remote endpoint is defined:
• IP Address. Enter the IP address of the remote endpoint in the fields to the
right of the radio button.
• FQDN. Enter the FQDN of the remote endpoint in the field to the right of the
radio button.
Select this check box to enable NetBIOS broadcasts to travel over the VPN
tunnel. For more information about NetBIOS, see
with IPSec VPN
on page 280. This feature is disabled by default.
Select this check box to enable the VPN tunnel to autoestablish itself without the
presence of any traffic.
Note: The direction and type of the IKE policy that is associated with this VPN
policy must be either Initiator or Both but cannot be Responder. For more
Manually Add or Edit an IKE Policy
information, see
Select whether keep-alive is enabled:
• Yes. This feature is enabled: Periodically, the VPN firewall sends keep-alive
requests (ping packets) to the remote endpoint to keep the tunnel alive. You
must specify the ping IP address in the Ping IP Address field, the detection
period in the Detection Period field, and the maximum number of
keep-alive requests that the VPN firewall sends in the Reconnect after
failure count field.
• No. This feature is disabled. This is the default setting.
Ping IP Address The IP address that the VPN firewall pings. The address
must be of a host that can respond to ICMP ping requests.
Detection Period The period in seconds between the keep-alive requests. The
default setting is 10 seconds.
Reconnect after The maximum number of keep-alive requests before the
failure count VPN firewall tears down the connection and then attempts to
reconnect to the remote endpoint. The default setting is 3
keep-alive requests.
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Configure NetBIOS Bridging
on page 241.