Netgear FVS318v3 – Cable/DSL ProSafe VPN Firewall with 8-Port Switch Reference Manual

Sample VPN Configurations with FVS318v3

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You are new ready to activate the tunnel, but you must do it from the client endpoint (see 

). In the client-to-gateway scenario, 

the gateway router will not know the client’s IP address until the client initiates the traffic.

You can test connectivity and view VPN status information on the FVS318v3 and VPN Client 
according to the testing flowchart shown in 

A LAN, do the following:

1. Test 1: Launch Scenario_1 Connection from Client PC: To check the VPN Connection, you 

can initiate a request from the remote PC to the VPN router’s network by using the Connect 
option in the VPN Client’s menu bar (see 

dynamically assigned WAN IP address, it must initiate the request. 

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

b. Select Connect to open the My Connections list.

c. Choose Scenario_1.

The VPN Client reports the results of the attempt to connect. Once the connection is 
established, you can access resources of the network connected to the VPN router. 

Alternative Ping Test: To perform a ping test as an alternative, start from the remote PC:

a. From a Windows Client PC, click the Start button on the taskbar and then click Run.

b. Type  ping -t  10.5.6.1, and then click OK.

c. This will cause a continuous ping to be sent to the LAN interface of Gateway A. Within 

two minutes, the ping response should change from timed out to reply.

At this point the VPN-tunnel-endpoint-to-VPN-tunnel-endpoint connection is established.