information on the progress and status of the vpn client connection can be viewed by opening the safenet connection monitor or log viewer. to launch these functions, click on the windows start button, then select programs, then safenet softremote, then either the connection monitor or log viewer.

    the log viewer screen for a successful connection is shown below:

   

    figure 5-15: log viewer screen

    the connection monitor screen for this connection is shown below:

   

    figure 5-16: connection monitor screen

    in this example you can see the following:

    1 the fvm318 has a public ip wan address of 134.177.100.11

    2 the fvm318 has a lan ip address of 192.168.0.1

    3 the vpn client pc has a dynamically assigned address of 12.236.5.184

    4 the vpn client pc is using a “virtual fixed” ip address of 192.168.100.100

    while the connection is being established, the connection name field in this menu will say “sa” before the name of the connection. when the connection is successful, the “sa” will change to the yellow key symbol shown in the illustration above.

    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.

    procedure 5-3: deleting a security association

    to delete a security association:

    1.log in to the firewall.

    2.click the vpn settings link.

    3.in the vpn settings security association table, select the radio button for the security association to be deleted.

    4.click the delete button.

    5.click the update button.