Netgear FVS318v1 – Prosafe Wireless N VPN Firewall Reference Manual

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Virtual Private Networking

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This will cause a continuous ping to be sent to the first FVS318. After between several 
seconds and two minutes, the ping response should change from “timed out” to “reply.”

At this point the connection is established. Now that your VPN connection is working, 
whenever a PC on the second LAN needs to access an IP address on the first LAN, the 
Firewalls will automatically establish the connection. 

This procedure describes linking a remote PC and a LAN. The LAN will connect to the Internet 
using an FVS318 with a fixed IP address. The PC can be connected to the Internet through dialup, 
cable or DSL modem, or other means, and we will assume it has a dynamically assigned IP 
address. 

The PC must have a VPN client program that supports IPSec. NETGEAR recommends and 
supports the SafeNet SoftRemote (or Soft-PK) Secure VPN Client for Windows. The SafeNet 
VPN Client can be purchased from SafeNet at 

http://www.safenet-inc.com

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If your situation is different, for example, if your remote PC is connected through a simple 

cable/DSL router, or if you wish to use different VPN client software, please refer to NETGEAR's 
web site for additional VPN applications information. 

VPN Tunnel