Fortinet fortigate-200a Betriebsanweisung

Pre-shared Key If you select Preshared Key for Authentication Method, enter the preshared 

key. 
The key must contain at least 6 printable characters and should only be 

known by network administrators. For optimum protection against currently 

known attacks, the key should consist of a minimum of 16 randomly chosen 

alphanumeric characters.
The VPN peers must use the same preshared key. 

If you select RSA Signature for Authentication Method, enter the name of the 

digital certificate. For information on how to use digital certificates, see 

Depending on the Remote Gateway and Mode settings, you may have a 

choice of peer options to authenticate remote dialup clients or VPN peers with 

local IDs, peer IDs, or certificate names. The local ID, peer ID, or certificate 

name that you specify must match the local ID, peer ID, or certificate name of 

the remote client or peer for the remote client or peer to start a VPN session 

with the FortiGate unit.
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Select Accept any peer ID to accept the local ID or peer ID of any remote 
client or VPN peer. 

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Select Accept this peer ID to accept a remote client or group that has a 
particular local ID or peer ID. Enter the value. 

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Select Accept peer ID in dialup group to accept remote clients that belong 
to a particular dialup group. Select the group of dialup users. 

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Select Accept this peer certificate only to accept a remote client or group 
that has a particular digital certificate. The certificate must be added to the 
FortiGate configuration through the config user peer CLI command 
before it can be selected here. For more information, see the “config user” 
chapter of the CLI Reference Guide. See also 

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Select Accept this peer certificate group only to accept a group of 
certificate holders. The group must be added to the FortiGate 
configuration through the config user peer and config user 
peergrp CLI commands before it can be selected here. For more 
information, see the “config user” chapter of the CLI Reference Guide.