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VPN Tunnel Connection Status, Enable Keep Alive
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FVS338 ProSafe VPN Firewall 50 Reference Manual • ! (Status). Indicates whether the policy is enabled (green circle) or disabled (grey circle). To Enable or Disable a Policy, check the radio box adjacent to the circle and click Enable or Disable, as required. • Name. Each policy is given a unique name (the Connection Name when using the VPN Wizard). Client Policies are annotated by an "*". • Type. The Type is "Auto" or "Manual" as described previously (Auto is used during VPN Wizard configuration). • Keep alive: It periodically sends ping packets to the host on the peer side of the network to keep the tunnel alive. - Enable Keep Alive: Check to enable. - Ping IP Address: Enter the IP Address to which ping packets need to be sent. - Detection period: Router sends ping packets periodically at regular intervals of time which is specified by the user. - Reconnect after failure count: Fresh negotiation starts when no acknowledgement is received for the specified number of consecutive packets. • Local. IP address (either a single address, range of address or subnet address) on your local LAN. Traffic must be from (or to) these addresses to be covered by this policy. (Subnet address is the default IP address when using the VPN Wizard). • Remote. IP address or address range of the remote network. Traffic must be to (or from) these addresses to be covered by this policy. (The VPN Wizard default requires the remote LAN IP address and subnet mask for a gateway policy). • AH. Authentication Header. This specifies the authentication protocol for the VPN header (VPN Wizard default is disabled). • ESP. Encapsulating Security Payload. This specifies the encryption protocol used for the VPN data (VPN Wizard default is enabled). VPN Tunnel Connection Status Recent VPN tunnel activity is shown on the IPSec Connection Status screen (accessed by selecting VPN from the main menu and Connection Status from the submenu).You can set a Poll Interval (in seconds) to check the connection status of all active IKE Policies to obtain the latest VPN tunnel activity. The Active IPSec (SA)s table also lists current data for each active IPSec SA (Security Association): • Policy Name. The name of the VPN policy associated with this SA. Virtual Private Networking v1.0, March 2009 5-17