Page 178 SonicWALL Internet Security Appliance Administrator’s Guide
VPN Management Interface
Summary Tab
The Summary tab has four sections: Global VPN Settings, VPN Bandwidth Management, VPN
Policies, and Currently Active VPN tunnels.
Global VPN Settings
The Global VPN Settings section displays the following information:
• Unique Firewall Identifier - the default value is the serial number of the SonicWALL appliance.
You can change the Identifier, and use it for configuring VPN tunnels.
• Enable VPN - must be selected to allow VPN security associations.
• Disable all VPN Windows Networking (NetBIOS) broadcast - also selected. This check box disa-
bles NetBIOS broadcasts for every Security Association configuration.
• Enable Fragmented Packet Handling - if the VPN log report shows the log message "Fragmented
IPSec packet dropped", select this feature. Do not select it until the VPN tunnel is established
and in operation.
• Enable NAT Traversal - select if a NAT device is located between your VPN endpoints.
See page 177 for more information on SonicWALL NAT Traversal Support.
• Keep Alive Interval (seconds) - the default value is 240 seconds (4 minutes). If Enable Keep
Alive is selected on the Advanced Settings window, this is the interval of time between “heart-
beats.”
• Enable IKE Dead peer detection - select if you want inactive VPN tunnels to be dropped by the
SonicWALL. Enter the number of seconds between “heartbeats” in the Dead peer detection In-
terval (seconds) field. The default value is 60 seconds. Enter the number of missed heartbeats