Quick Reference Guide

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v1.0, January 2010
Chapter 8
VPN Firewall and Network Management
This chapter describes how to use the network management features of your ProSafe Dual WAN
Gigabit Firewall with SSL & IPsec VPN FVS336G.
The VPN firewall offers many tools for managing the network traffic to optimize its performance.
You can also control administrator access, be alerted to important events requiring prompt action,
monitor the VPN firewall status, perform diagnostics, and manage the VPN firewall configuration
file.
This chapter contains the following sections:
• “Performance Management” on this page
• “Changing Passwords and Administrator Settings” on page 8-8
• “Enabling Remote Management Access” on page 8-10
• “Using the Command Line Interface” on page 8-12
• “Using an SNMP Manager” on page 8-13
• “Managing the Configuration File” on page 8-14
• “Configuring Date and Time Service” on page 8-17
Performance Management
Performance management consists of controlling the traffic through the VPN firewall so that the
necessary traffic gets through when there is a bottleneck and either reducing unnecessary traffic or
rescheduling some traffic to low-peak times to prevent bottlenecks from occurring in the first
place. The VPN firewall has the necessary features and tools to help the network manager
accomplish these goals.
Bandwidth Capacity
The maximum bandwidth capacity of the VPN firewall in each direction is as follows:
• LAN side: 4000 Mbps (four LAN ports at 1000 Mbps each)
• WAN side: 2000 Mbps (load balancing mode, two WAN ports at 1000 Mbps each) or
1000 Mbps (rollover mode, one active WAN port at 1000 Mbps)