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Internet Key Exchange (IKE or IKEv2) is the protocol used to set up a security association (SA) in the IPsec protocol suite. StoneGate FW/VPN 5.3 introduces the support for IKEv2 (in addition to IKEv1) in VPN configuration. IKEv2 includes the support for IKEv2 Mobility and Multihoming Protocol (MOBIKE). MOBIKE enables transparent recovery for VPN clients if the IP address of the VPN client or the IP address of the gateway to which the VPN client is connected changes in the middle of an open VPN connection.

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written by Tero Jantunen - 980 views \\ tags: 5.3, Feature Previews, IKEv2, SA, SMC, troubleshooting, VPN

In StoneGate Management Center 5.2 the VPN troubleshooting tools have improved significantly. There are a lot of new drill-in actions available in System Status view. You can for example right-click any VPN tunnel in the VPN diagrams and drill-in to logs that flow through the selected tunnel. You can also right-click individual Gateways or Endpoints (from the Info panel) and drill-in to the related logs.

written by Tero Jantunen - 1,521 views \\ tags: 5.2, Drill-in, Feature Previews, firewall, logs, Shortcuts, SMC, troubleshooting, VPN, VPN diagrams

We have noticed that a lot of StoneGate administrators are constantly inquiring the country, city, organization information from these web portals:

• http://www.ripe.net/
• http://www.arin.net/whois/
• http://www.afrinic.net/cgi-bin/whois
• http://wq.apnic.net/apnic-bin/whois.pl
• http://www.lacnic.net/cgi-bin/lacnic/whois

In order to save administrator’s time, StoneGate 5.2 has now integrated whois action. You can right-click any IP address in logs, statistics or reports. The results of whois query are displayed in a separate info dialog.

written by Tero Jantunen - 820 views \\ tags: 5.2, Feature Previews, ip address, Monitoring, Shortcuts, SMC, troubleshooting, whois