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FVS318N Mobile VPN How To?
I've been trying to figure this out for some time now as the documentation for this device is NOT real clear about it at all.
I'd like to configure the firewall such that I can get a VPN connection into the LAN from my laptop while out on the road. Using the VPN Wizzard apparently does NOT create the IKE / IPSec policies to make this WORK at all and unfortunately I cannot figure out how to create them manually. I've tried searching the community on this specific subject but it appears that the search engine doesn't really work either is the only results that come up have nothing to do with it what I'm looking for. I've tried every search term combination I can think of and still nothing. I purchased the full version of the Mobile VPN Client for the laptop and would really like to get it working.
Can anyone point me to a DETAILED explanation of just exactly how to do this?
Hi Digithead,
Welcome to the community!
If you want to use VPN connect to LAN from your laptop,you can use prosafe vpn client.
Firstly,create a client-to-gateway vpn on FVS318N,then use prosafe vpn client connect to the VPN.
Please see below reference:
http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/FVS318N/QSGVPN_4Apr2012.pdfThanks,
Dan
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Hi Digithead,
Welcome to the community!
If you want to use VPN connect to LAN from your laptop,you can use prosafe vpn client.
Firstly,create a client-to-gateway vpn on FVS318N,then use prosafe vpn client connect to the VPN.
Please see below reference:
http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/FVS318N/QSGVPN_4Apr2012.pdfThanks,
Dan
Hello Dan,
Thank you for your reply and please forgive my tardiness in getting back to you.
I actually have that PDF already and have tried multiple times to get the Client-to-FVS318N VPN to work but I must be missing something somewhere. It simply would not work. As I mentioned in my initial post, I did purchase a full licensed version of the VPN client so that's not an issue. What seems to be happening is that the firewall's Wizzard never creates the Phase I and Phase II components of the policy so of course no "hand-shaking" ever gets completed resulting in no VPN connection. I just verified yesterday morning that both of my FVS318N firewalls are completely up to date with the latest firmware available so that shouldn't be the problem either.
I'll give this yet another go over the weekend though and see what happens. I'd really like to get this figured out and functioing though as I have two trips coming up soon and I don't like the idea of "poking holes" through the firewalls to get into the network remotely.
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