NETGEAR 54 Mbps Wireless ADSL Firewall DG834G User Manual

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Wireless ADSL2+ Modem Router DG834G User Manual

NETGEAR VPN Configuration

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v1.0, May 2008

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 modem router menu (see

Figure B-23

).

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.

Select toDG834G.

The modem router reports the results of the attempt to connect. Once the connection is
established, you can access resources of the network connected to the VPN router.

To perform a ping test using this 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.

c.

Type ping -t 192.168.0.1, and then click OK.

Figure B-23

Figure B-24

Right-mouse-click the system
tray icon to open the pop up
menu.

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