Netgear FWG114P v2 User Manual

Virtual Private Networking

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You can test the VPN connection in several ways:

•

From the client PC to the FWG114P v2

•

From the FWG114P v2 to the client PC

These procedures are explained below.

To check the VPN Connection, you can initiate a request from the remote PC to the FWG114P v2 
by using the “Connect” option of the FWG114P v2 Wireless Firewall/Print Server popup menu. 

1.

Open the popup menu by right-clicking on the system tray icon. 

2.

Select Connect to open the My Connections list.

3.

Choose FWG114P v2.

The FWG114P v2 Wireless Firewall/Print Server will report the results of the attempt to 
connect. 

Once the connection is established, you can access resources of the network connected to the 
FWG114P v2. 

Another method is to ping from the remote PC to the LAN IP address of the FWG114P v2. To 
perform a ping test using our example, start from the remote PC:

1.

Establish an Internet connection from the PC.

2.

On the Windows taskbar, click the Start button, and then click Run.

3.

Type  

 and click OK.

This will cause a continuous ping to be sent to the first FWG114P v2. After a period of up to 
two minutes, the ping response should change from “timed out” to “reply.”

Virus protection or firewall software can interfere with VPN communications. Be 

sure such software is not running on the remote PC with the Netgear ProSafe VPN 
Client and that the firewall features of the FWG114P v2 are not set in such a way as to 
prevent VPN communications.