Enter a Name to identify the gateway (up to 31 characters). The name is case-sensitive and must be unique. Use only letters, numbers, spaces, hyphens, and underscores.

Select the IKE version that the gateway supports and must agree to use with the peer gateway: IKEv1 only mode, IKEv2 only mode, or IKEv2 preferred mode. IKEv2 preferred mode causes the gateway to negotiate for IKEv2 and that is what they will use if the peer also supports IKEv2; otherwise, the gateway falls back to IKEv1.

Select the type of IP address the gateway uses: IPv4 or IPv6.

Specify the outgoing firewall interface to the VPN tunnel.

Select or enter the IP address for the local interface that is the endpoint of the tunnel.

Select one of the following settings and enter the corresponding information for the peer:

Select the type of authentication: Pre-Shared Key or Certificate that will occur with the peer gateway. Depending on the selection, see Pre-Shared Key Fields or Certificate Fields.

If you select Pre-Shared Key, enter a single security key to use for symmetric authentication across the tunnel. The Pre-Shared Key value is a string that the administrator creates using a maximum of 255 ASCII or non-ASCII characters. Generate a key that is difficult to crack with dictionary attacks; use a pre-shared key generator, if necessary.

Defines the format and identification of the local gateway, which are used with the pre-shared key for both IKEv1 phase 1 SA and IKEv2 SA establishment.

Choose one of the following types and enter the value: FQDN (hostname), IP address, KEYID (binary format ID string in HEX), or User FQDN (email address).

If you don’t specify a value, the gateway will use the local IP address as the Local Identification value.

Defines the type and identification of the peer gateway, which are used with the pre-shared key during IKEv1 phase 1 SA and IKEv2 SA establishment.

Choose one of the following types and enter the value: FQDN (hostname), IP address, KEYID (binary format ID string in HEX), or User FQDN (email address).

If you don’t specify a value, the gateway will use the IP address of the peer as the Peer Identification value.

If Certificate is selected as the Authentication type, from the drop-down, select a certificate that is already on the firewall.

Alternatively, you could Import a certificate, or Generate a new certificate, as follows:

Import:

Generate:

Click HTTP Certificate Exchange and enter the Certificate URL to use the Hash-and-URL method to tell the peer where to fetch the certificate. The Certificate URL is the URL of the remote server where you store your certificate.

If the peer indicates that it also supports Hash and URL, then certificates are exchanged through the SHA1 Hash-and-URL exchange.

When the peer receives the IKE certificate payload, it sees the HTTP URL and fetches the certificate from that server. Then the peer uses the hash specified in the certificate payload to check the certificates downloaded from the HTTP server.

Identifies how the local peer is identified in the certificate. Choose one of the following types and enter the value: Distinguished Name (Subject), FQDN (hostname), IP address, or User FQDN (email address).

Identifies how the remote peer is identified in the certificate. Choose one of the following types and enter the value: Distinguished Name (Subject), FQDN (hostname), IP address, or User FQDN (email address).

Select Exact or Wildcard. This setting applies to the Peer Identification being examined to validate the certificate. For example, if the Peer Identification is a Name equal to domain.com, you select Exact, and the name of the certificate in the IKE ID payload is mail.domain2.com, the IKE negotiation will fail. But if you selected Wildcard, then only characters in the Name string before the wildcard asterisk (*) must match and any character after the wildcard can be different.

Select if you want the flexibility of having a successful IKE SA even though the peer identification does not match the certificate payload.

Select a profile or create a new Certificate Profile that configures the certificate options that apply to the certificate that the local gateway sends to the peer gateway. See Device > Certificate Management > Certificate Profile.