Netgear FVS318Gv2 – ProSAFE VPN Firewall Series Reference Manual

mode. The latter mode adds IPv6 functionality. For more information, see 

on page 39.

Network Address Translation (NAT) allows all computers on your LAN to share a single public 
Internet IP address. From the Internet, only a single device (the VPN firewall) and a single IP 
address exist. Computers on your LAN can use any private IP address range, and these IP 
addresses are not visible from the Internet.

Note the following about NAT:

The VPN firewall uses NAT to select the correct computer (on your LAN) to receive any 
incoming data. 

If you use only a single public Internet IP address, you must use NAT (the default setting).

If your ISP provided you with multiple public IP addresses, you can use one address as 
the primary shared address for Internet access by your computers, and you can map 
incoming traffic on the other public IP addresses to specific computers on your LAN. This 
one-to-one inbound mapping is configured using an inbound firewall rule.

In classical routing mode, the VPN firewall performs routing, but without NAT. To gain Internet 
access, each computer on your LAN must be assigned a valid static Internet IP address. 

If your ISP allocated a number of static IP addresses to you, and you assigned one of these 
addresses to each computer, you can choose classical routing. Or you can use classical 
routing for routing private IP addresses within a campus environment.

You can view the status of the WAN ports on the Router Status screen (see 

on page 361).

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Log in to the unit:
a. In the address field of any of the qualified web browsers, enter https://192.168.1.1.

The NETGEAR Configuration Manager Login screen displays. 

b.  In the Username field, enter admin and in the Password / Passcode field, enter 

password.

Use lowercase letters. If you changed the password, enter your personalized 
password. Leave the domain as it is (geardomain).

c.  Click the Login button.

The Router Status screen displays. After five minutes of inactivity, which is the default 
login time-out, you are automatically logged out.