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BR500 VPN Currently Experiencing Intermittent Connectivity Issues - Reply Thread
Update Oct 30, 2019
Dear NETGEAR BR500 customers,
Over the past two weeks we have experienced extreme instability with our VPN cloud ecosystem. We believe it is due to the scale of custo...
You may want to look into setting up IPSEC VPN. While you are in the management console, go to devices, and then double click on the device, on the left you should see IPSEC VPN. It does take a little work to get both ends setup though. (I will say that I have pretty regular drops, but that those recover just as fast, and if you have alerting on, your phone, and email will be full of these alerts) The BR500, with their services, can make settting up a VPN between sites much easier, as long as it is up and working.
NathenB, thank you for your suggestion.
Can IPSec and "InstantVPN groups" being running at the same time? Can I connect 3 BR500 to each other using IPSec or is it only a one-to-one type of connection?
Yes, you can use IPSec and Insight VPN services at the same time. The IPSec setup would be more difficult and it will require you to create on the local router a profile for each remote router.
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