NETGEAR UTM50-100NAS Network Hardware User Manual


 
ProSecure Unified Threat Management (UTM) Appliance Reference Manual
7-56 Virtual Private Networking Using IPsec Connections
v1.0, January 2010
Configuring Keepalives
The Keepalive feature maintains the IPSec SA by sending periodic ping requests to a host across
the tunnel and monitoring the replies. To configure the Keepalive feature on a configured VPN
policy:
1. Select VPN > IPSec VPN from the menu. The IPsec VPN submenu tabs appear with the IKE
Policies screen in view.
2. Click the VPN Policies submenu tab. The VPN Policies screen displays (see Figure 7-22 on
page 7-32).
3. In the List of VPN Policies table, click the Edit table button to the right of the VPN policy that
you want to edit. The Edit VPN Policy screen displays. (Figure 7-31 shows only the top part of
the screen with the General section).
Figure 7-31