Cisco Cisco SA540 Security Appliance Technical References

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Configuring a Cisco SA 500 to Accept a VPN Connection from a Shrew Soft VPN Client

The procedures and guidelines in this Application Note assume that your SA 500 is set up for Internet 
connectivity and has a basic configuration. It applies to an SA 500 running firmware version 1.1.21 and 
Shrew Soft Client version 2.1.15. Using different versions might display slightly different screens and 
configurations that what is described in this document. Administrators working on this system should 
have a basic working knowledge of IPSec VPNs. 

Before proceeding, make sure you know the preshared key, list of users, and user passwords.

The SA 500 configuration utility includes a VPN Wizard you use to configure the SA 500. This section 
describes how to configure the router to allow the Shrew Soft VPN Client to connect to your network with 
minimal changes to the configuration.

To run the VPN Wizard, you must have administrator access to the SA 500.

To run the VPN Wizard:

Step 1.

To access the wizard, login to the SA 500 as administrator by entering this address: 
192.168.75.1.

Step 2.

The default username and password is cisco/cisco. 

Step 3.

Click VPN on the menu bar, and then click IPSec > VPN Wizard in the navigation tree.

This is an example configuration of the VPN Wizard page.