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ProSafe Gigabit 8 Port VPN Firewall FVS318G Reference Manual
Virtual Private Networking 5-27
v1.1, August 2010
Table 5-3. Add VPN Policy Settings
Item Description (or Subfield and Description)
General
Policy Name A descriptive name of the VPN policy for identification and management
purposes.
Note: The name is not supplied to the remote VPN endpoint.
Policy Type From the pull-down menu, select one of the following policy types:
• Auto Policy. Some settings (the ones in the Manual Policy Parameters section
of the screen) for the VPN tunnel are generated automatically.
• Manual Policy. All settings must be specified, including the ones in the Manual
Policy Parameters section of the screen.
Remote Endpoint Select a radio button to specify 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.
Enable NetBIOS? Select this checkbox to allow NetBIOS broadcasts to travel over the VPN tunnel.
For more information about NetBIOS, see “Configuring NetBIOS Bridging with
VPN” on page 5-55. This feature is disabled by default.
Enable Keepalive
Note: See also
“Configuring
Keepalives and
Dead Peer
Detection” on
page 5-53.
Select a radio button to specify if Keepalive is enabled:
• Yes. This feature is enabled: periodically, the VPN firewall sends ping packets
to the remote endpoint to keep the tunnel alive. You must enter the ping IP
address, detection period, and the maximum number of times that the VPN
firewall attempts to reconnect (see below).
• 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 ping packets. The default
setting is 10 seconds.
Reconnect after
failure count
The maximum number of Keepalive requests before the VPN
firewall tears down the connection and then attempts to
reconnect to the remote endpoint. The default is 3 Keepalive
requests.