Netgear FVS328 Reference Manual

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NETGEAR VPN Client to NETGEAR the FVS328

You can test the VPN connection in several ways:

•

From the client PC to the FVS328

•

From the FVS328 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 FVS328 by 
using the “Connect” option of the FVS328 Firewall 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 FVS328.

The FVS328 Firewall will report the results of the attempt to connect. 

Once the connection is established, you can access resources of the network connected to the 
FVS328. 

Another method is to ping from the remote PC to the LAN IP address of the FVS328. 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 FVS328. 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 FVS328 are not set in such a way as to 
prevent VPN communications.