Owner's Manual

Virtual Private Networking Using IPSec and L2TP Connections
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ProSafe Wireless-N 8-Port Gigabit VPN Firewall FVS318N
Configure Keep-Alives
The keep-alive feature maintains the IPSec SA by sending periodic ping requests to a host
across the tunnel and monitoring the replies.
To configure the keep-alive feature on a configured VPN policy:
1. Select VPN > IPSec VPN > VPN Policies. The
VPN Policies screen displays the IPv4
settings (see Figure 139 on
page 226).
2. S
pecify the IP version for which you want to edit a VPN policy:
IPv4. In
the upper right of the screen, the IPv4 radio button is already selected by
default. Go to Step 3.
IPv6. Select
the IPv6 radio button. The VPN Policies screen for IPv6 displays.
3. In
the List of VPN Policies table, click the Edit table button to the right of the VPN policy that
you want to edit. The Edit VPN Policy screen displays. (The following figure shows only the
top part with the General section of the Edit VPN Policy screen for IPv6.)
Figure 155.