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ZyWALL 2 Series User’s Guide
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VPN Screens
Table 14-8 Advanced
IKE VPN Rule Setup
LABEL
DESCRIPTION
SA Life Time
(seconds)
Define the length of time before an IKE SA automatically renegotiates in this field. It may
range from 180 to 3,000,000 seconds (almost 35 days).
A short SA Life Time increases security by forcing the two VPN gateways to update the
encryption and authentication keys. However, every time the VPN tunnel renegotiates, all
users accessing remote resources are temporarily disconnected.
Encapsulation Select
Tunnel
mode or
Transport
mode from the drop-down list box.
Perfect Forward
Secrecy (PFS)
Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) is disabled (
NONE
) by default in phase 2 IPSec SA setup.
This allows faster IPSec setup, but is not so secure. Choose
DH1
or
DH2
from the drop-
down list box to enable PFS.
DH1
refers to Diffie-Hellman Group 1 a 768 bit random
number.
DH2
refers to Diffie-Hellman Group 2 a 1024 bit (1Kb) random number (more
secure, yet slower).
Apply
Click
Apply
to save your changes back to the ZyWALL and return to the
Edit VPN Rule
screen.
Cancel
Click
Cancel
to return to the
Edit VPN Rule
screen without saving your changes.
14.14 Manual Key Setup
Manual key management is useful if you have problems with
IKE
key management.
14.14.1
Security Parameter Index (SPI)
An SPI is used to distinguish different SAs terminating at the same destination and using the same IPSec
protocol. This data allows for the multiplexing of SAs to a single gateway. The
SPI
(Security Parameter
Index) along with a destination IP address uniquely identify a particular Security Association (SA). The
SPI
is transmitted from the remote VPN gateway to the local VPN gateway. The local VPN gateway then uses
the network, encryption and key values that the administrator associated with the SPI to establish the tunnel.
Current ZyWALL implementation assumes identical outgoing and incoming SPIs.
14.15 Configuring Edit Manual Setup
To edit manual setup, click
Edit
in the
VPN Rules
screen to configure the VPN settings.