NETGEAR DG834G Router Manual PDF (Setup & Configuration Guide)

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b.

Expand the

Authentication

subheading by double clicking its name or clicking on the “+”

symbol. Then select

Proposal 1

below

Authentication

.

Figure F-20:

Security Policy Editor authentication

c.

In the

Authentication Method

menu, select

Pre-Shared key

.

d.

In the

Encrypt Alg

menu, select the type of encryption. In this example, use

Triple DES

.

e.

In the

Hash Alg

menu, select

SHA-1

.

f.

In the

SA Life

menu, select

Unspecified

.

g.

In the

Key Group

menu, select

Diffie-Hellman Group 2

.

6.

Configure the

VPN Client Key Exchange Proposal

.

In this step, you will provide the type of encryption (

DES

or

3DES

) to be used for this

connection. This selection must match your selection in the VPN router configuration.

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a.

Expand the

Key Exchange

subheading by double clicking its name or clicking on the “+”

symbol. Then select

Proposal 1

below

Key Exchange

.

Figure F-21:

Security Policy Editor key exchange

b.

In the

SA Life

menu, select

Unspecified

.

c.

In the

Compression

menu, select

None

.

d.

Check the

Encapsulation Protocol (ESP)

checkbox.

e.

In the

Encrypt Alg

menu, select the type of encryption. In this example, use

Triple DES

.

f.

In the

Hash Alg

menu, select

SHA-1

.

g.

In the

Encapsulation

menu, select

Tunnel

.

h.

Leave the

Authentication Protocol (AH)

checkbox unchecked.

7.

Save the VPN Client settings.

From the

File

menu at the top of the

Security Policy Editor

window, select

Save

.

After you have configured and saved the VPN client information, your PC will automatically

open the VPN connection when you attempt to access any IP addresses in the range of the

remote VPN router’s LAN.

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8.

Check the

VPN Connection

.

To check the

VPN Connection

, you can initiate a request from the remote PC to the VPN

router’s network by using the

Connect

option in the DG834G wireless router menu bar (see

Figure F-22

). Since the remote PC has a dynamically assigned WAN IP address, it must

initiate the request.

a.

Right-click the system tray icon to open the popup menu.

b.

Select

Connect

to open the

My Connections

list.

c.

Choose

toDG834G

.

The DG834G Wireless ADSL Firewall Router will report the results of the attempt to connect.

Once the connection is established, you can access resources of the network connected to the

VPN router.

Figure F-22:

Connecting the PC the DG834G over the VPN tunnel

To perform a ping test using our example, start from the remote PC:

a.

Establish an Internet connection from the PC.

b.

On the

Windows

taskbar, click the Start

button

, and then click

Run

.

Right-mouse-click on

the system tray icon

to open the popup

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c.

Type

ping -t 192.168.0.1

, and then click

OK

.

Figure F-23:

Running a ping test to the LAN from the PC

This will cause a continuous ping to be sent to the VPN router. After between several

seconds and two minutes, the ping response should change from

timed out

to

reply

.

Figure F-24:

Ping test results

Once the connection is established, you can open the browser of the PC and enter the LAN IP

address of the VPN router. After a short wait, you should see the login screen of the VPN router

(unless another PC already has the VPN router management interface open).

Note:

You can use the VPN router diagnostic utilities to test the VPN connection from the VPN

router to the client PC. Run ping tests from the

Diagnostics

link of the VPN router main menu.

Monitoring the VPN Tunnel (Telecommuter Example)

Viewing the PC Client’s Connection Monitor and Log Viewer

To view information on the progress and status of the VPN client connection, open the DG834G

Wireless ADSL Firewall Router

Log Viewer

.

1.

To launch this function, click on the Windows

Start

button, then select

Programs

, then

DG834G Wireless ADSL Firewall Router, then

Log Viewer

.

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2.

The

Connection Monitor

screen is shown below:

Figure F-25:

Connection Monitor screen

While the connection is being established, the

Connection Name

field in this menu will show

SA

before the name of the connection. When the connection is successful, the

SA

will change to the

yellow key symbol.

Note:

Use the active VPN tunnel information and pings to determine whether a failed

connection is due to the VPN tunnel or some reason outside the VPN tunnel.

Note:

While your PC is connected to a remote LAN through a VPN, you might not have

normal Internet access. If this is the case, you will need to close the VPN connection in

order to have normal Internet access.

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