NETGEAR ADSL Firewall Router DG834 - Manual (Page 225)

Reference Manual for the ADSL Firewall Router DG834
NETGEAR VPN Configuration E-25
202-10005-05, June 2005
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 DG834 ADSL router menu bar (see
Figure E-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 DG834 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 E-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