Netgear FVS318Gv2 – ProSAFE VPN Firewall Series User Manual

Automatically open this tunnel on traffic detection. Open the tunnel when the 

VPN Client detects traffic.

Select or clear the Enable before Windows logon check box.

Selecting this check box enables Windows credential providers for Windows Vista or 
Windows 7.

Credential providers allow a tunnel to be used for the Windows logon process. This can 
be useful when a corporate employee database is used for logon and the remote 
computer must connect to the corporate network before processing the Windows logon.

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When the credential providers feature is enabled, the Scripts pane is 
disabled. 

Select Configuration > Save or press Ctrl + S.

Your settings are saved.

You can manually or automatically open one or more VPN tunnels before Windows logon by 
using a Windows logon technology that is referred to as credential providers in Windows

 

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and Windows Vista. 

Before Windows logon, the following pop-up window opens to allow you to open the required 
VPN tunnel.

The pop-up window lists all VPN tunnels for which you selected the Enable before Windows 
logon check box on the Advanced IPSec pane.

The following information applies to these tunnels:

You cannot hide the pop-up window that opens before Windows logon.

If two tunnels are configured to automatically open on traffic detection but only one tunnel 
is configured to be enabled before Windows logon, both tunnels might open automatically 
before Windows logon when the IKE services are running.

If you configured scripts, they are disabled.

The VPN Client cannot function in USB mode (see 

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The Mode Config feature is disabled, so you might need to specify DNS or WINS server 
addresses (see