Verifying The Status Of A Vpn Tunnel - NETGEAR FVG318 Reference Manual

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Once the connection is established, you can open the browser of the PC and enter the LAN IP
address of the remote FVG318. After a short wait, you should see the login screen of the VPN
Firewall Router (unless another PC already has the FVG318 management interface open).
• Gateway-to-Gateway Configuration. Test the VPN tunnel by pinging the remote network
from a PC attached to the FVG318.
a. Open a command prompt (Start -> Run -> cmd).
b. Type ping 192.168.3.1.
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Note: The pings may fail the first time. If so, then try the pings a second time.

Verifying the Status of a VPN Tunnel

To use the VPN Logs screen to determine the status of a VPN tunnel, perform the following steps:
1. Log in to the VPN Firewall Router.
2. Open the FVG318 Monitoring > VPN Logs to get the VPN Logs screen (see
This log shows the details of recent VPN activity, including the building of the VPN tunnel. If
there is a problem with the VPN tunnel, refer to the log for information about what might be
the cause of the problem.
• Click Refresh to see the most recent entries.
• Click Clear Log to delete all log entries.
Basic Virtual Private Networking
ProSafe 802.11g Wireless VPN Firewall FVG318 Reference Manual
v1.0, September 2007
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