Connection Properties General Settings

The General tab in the Connection Properties dialog displays the following settings:

• Name ‐ Displays the name of your VPN connection.
• Description ‐ Displays a pop‐up text about the connection. The text appears when your mouse pointer moves over the VPN connection.

• Peer Defined Network Settings ‐ Defines the status of Tunnel All support. These settings are controlled at the SonicWall VPN gateway.

  • Other traffic allowed ‐ If enabled, your computer can access the local network or Internet connection while the VPN connection is active.
  • Default traffic tunneled to peer ‐ If activated, all network traffic not routed to the SonicWall VPN gateway is blocked. When you enable the VPN connection with this feature active, the Connection Warning message appears.
  • Use virtual IP address ‐ Allows the VPN Client to get its IP address via DHCP through the VPN tunnel from the gateway.
• Enable this connection when the program is launched ‐ Establishes the VPN connection as the default VPN connection when you launch the SonicWall Global VPN Client.
• Immediately establish security when connection is enabled ‐ Negotiates the first phase of IKE as soon as the connection is enabled instead of waiting for network traffic transmission to begin. This setting is enabled by default.

• Automatically reconnect when an error occurs ‐ With this feature enabled, if the Global VPN Client encounters a problem connecting to the peer, it keeps retrying to make the connection. This feature allows a Global VPN Client to make a connection to a VPN connection that is temporarily disabled, without manual intervention.

  If the connection error is due to an incorrect configuration, such as the DNS or IP address of the peer gateway, then the connection must be manually corrected. Check the Log Viewer to determine the problem and then edit the connection.

  This option is enabled by default. If an error occurs with this option disabled during an attempted connection, the Global VPN Client logs the error, displays an error message dialog, and stops the connection attempt.

• Automatically reconnect when waking from sleep or hibernation ‐ Automatically re‐enables the VPN connection after the computer wakes from a sleep or hibernation state. This setting is disabled by default.
• Execute logon script when connected ‐ After logging into the SonicWall VPN Gateway and establishing a secure tunnel, performs any action configured in the logon script.
• Run the following command when connection is established ‐ Allows a program to be automatically executed, with optional arguments, when successful VPN connections are established.
• Restrict the size of the first ISAKMP packet sent ‐ This option can be used when the Global VPN Client gets an error such as, “The peer is not responding to phase 1 ISAKMP requests” when attempting to connect. This error can occur when the ISAKMP packet is fragmented due to its size, but the network device (router) does not allow a fragmented packet when establishing the VPN connection.