Reboot The Vpn Firewall Remotely; Schedule The Vpn Firewall To Reboot - NETGEAR FVS336Gv3 Reference Manual

ProSAFE Dual WAN Gigabit WAN SSL VPN Firewall FVS336Gv3

Reboot the VPN Firewall Remotely

You can perform a remote reboot, for example, when the VPN firewall seems to have
become unstable or is not operating normally. For information about scheduling the VPN
firewall to reboot, see
Rebooting breaks any existing connections either to the VPN firewall (such as your
management session) or through the VPN firewall (for example, LAN users accessing the
Internet). However, connections to the Internet are automatically reestablished when
possible.
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To reboot the VPN firewall immediately:
1. On your computer, launch an Internet browser.
2. In the address field of your browser, enter the IP address that was assigned to the VPN
firewall during the installation process.
The VPN firewall factory default IP address is 192.168.1.1.
The NETGEAR Configuration Manager Login screen displays.
3. In the Username field, type your user name and in the Password / Passcode field, type
your password.
For the default administrative account, the default user name is admin and the default
password is password.
4. If you changed the default domain or were assigned a domain, from the Domain menu,
select the domain.
If you did not change the domain or were not assigned a domain, leave the menu
selection at geardomain.
5. Click the Login button.
The Router Status screen displays.
6. Select Monitoring > Diagnostics.
The Diagnostics screen displays the IPv4 settings.
7. In Router Options section, click the Reboot button.
The VPN firewall reboots. The Diagnostics screen might remain visible during the reboot
process or a status message with a counter might show the number of seconds left until
the reboot process is complete. The reboot process takes about 160 seconds.

Schedule the VPN Firewall to Reboot

You can schedule the VPN firewall to reboot at a time when a service disruption is minimal.
For information about rebooting the VPN firewall immediately, see
Remotely on page 615.
Schedule the VPN Firewall to Reboot
Diagnostics and Troubleshooting
615
on page 615.
Reboot the VPN Firewall