Draytek VIGOR2910 User Manual

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Vigor2910

Dual-WAN Security Router

User’s Guide

Version: 2.0

Date: 2006/7/24

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Preface ...............................................................................................................1

1.1 Web Configuration Buttons Explanation.................................................................................1

1.2 LED Indicators and Connectors.............................................................................................. 1

1.2.1 For Vigor2910................................................................................................................... 2

1.2.2 For Vigor2910G................................................................................................................ 3

1.2.3 For Vigor2910V................................................................................................................. 4

1.2.4 For Vigor2910VG.............................................................................................................. 5

1.3 Hardware Installation .............................................................................................................. 6

Configuring Basic Settings ..............................................................................7

2.1 Changing Password................................................................................................................ 7

2.2 Quick Start Wizard.................................................................................................................. 9

2.2.1 PPPoE ............................................................................................................................ 10

2.2.2 PPTP............................................................................................................................... 12

2.2.3 Static IP........................................................................................................................... 13

2.2.4 DHCP.............................................................................................................................. 14

2.3 Online St atus......................................................................................................................... 15

2.4 Saving Configuration............................................................................................................. 17

A d v a n c e d We b C o n f i g u r at i o n..................................................................................19

3.1 WAN...................................................................................................................................... 19

3.1.1 Basics of Internet Protocol (IP) Network......................................................................... 19

3.1.2 General Setup................................................................................................................. 20

3.1.3 Internet Access............................................................................................................... 21

3.1.4 Load-Balance Policy.......................................................................................................29

3.2 LAN ....................................................................................................................................... 32

3.2.1 Basics of LAN ................................................................................................................. 32

3.2.2 General Setup................................................................................................................. 34

3.2.3 Static Route.................................................................................................................... 36

3.3 NAT ....................................................................................................................................... 39

3.3.1 Port Redirection.............................................................................................................. 40

3.3.2 DMZ Host........................................................................................................................ 42

3.3.3 Open Ports...................................................................................................................... 44

3.4 Firewall.................................................................................................................................. 46

3.4.1 Basics for Firewall........................................................................................................... 46

3.4.2 General Setup................................................................................................................. 49

3.4.3 Filter Setup ..................................................................................................................... 51

3.4.4 DoS Defense .................................................................................................................. 56

3.4.5 URL Content Filter.......................................................................................................... 58

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3.4.6 Web Content Filter.......................................................................................................... 61

3.4.6 Bind IP to MAC............................................................................................................... 62

3.5 Objects Settings.................................................................................................................... 63

3.5.1 IP Object......................................................................................................................... 63

3.5.2 IP Group ......................................................................................................................... 65

3.5.3 Service Type Object .......................................................................................................66

3.5.4 Service Type Group........................................................................................................67

3.5.5 CSM Profile..................................................................................................................... 68

3.6 Bandwidth Management....................................................................................................... 69

3.6.1 Limit Session .................................................................................................................. 69

3.6.2 Limit Bandwidth .............................................................................................................. 70

3.6.3 Quality of Service............................................................................................................ 72

3.7 Applications........................................................................................................................... 80

3.7.1 Dynamic DNS................................................................................................................. 80

3.7.2 Schedule......................................................................................................................... 82

3.7.3 RADIUS.......................................................................................................................... 84

3.7.4 UPnP............................................................................................................................... 85

3.7.5 Wake On LAN................................................................................................................. 86

3.8 VPN and Remote Access...................................................................................................... 88

3.8.1 Remote Access Control.................................................................................................. 88

3.8.2 PPP General Setup ........................................................................................................ 88

3.8.3 IPSec General Setup...................................................................................................... 89

3.8.4 IPSec Peer Identity......................................................................................................... 90

3.8.5 Remote User Profiles......................................................................................................93

3.8.6 LAN to LAN..................................................................................................................... 96

3.8.7 Connection Management.............................................................................................. 104

3.9 Certificate Management...................................................................................................... 105

3.9.1 Local Certificate............................................................................................................ 105

3.9.2 Trusted CA Certificate .................................................................................................. 107

3.9.3 Certificate Backup......................................................................................................... 108

3.10 VoIP................................................................................................................................... 109

3.10.1 DialPlan ...................................................................................................................... 110

3.10.2 SIP Accounts.............................................................................................................. 113

3.10.3 Phone Settings ........................................................................................................... 116

3.10.4 Status.......................................................................................................................... 122

3.1 1 Wireless LAN..................................................................................................................... 124

3.11.1 Basic Concepts........................................................................................................... 124

3.11.2 General Settings......................................................................................................... 127

3.11.3 Security....................................................................................................................... 129

3.11.4 Access Control............................................................................................................ 131

3.11.5 WDS............................................................................................................................ 132

3.11.6 AP Discovery.............................................................................................................. 134

3.11.7 Station List.................................................................................................................. 135

3.11.8 Station Rate Control ................................................................................................... 136

3.12 VLAN................................................................................................................................. 136

3.12.1 Wired VLAN................................................................................................................ 136

3.12.2 Wireless VLAN............................................................................................................ 137

3.12.3 VLAN Cross Setup...................................................................................................... 141

3.12.4 Wireless Rate Control................................................................................................. 142

3.13 System Maintenance......................................................................................................... 143

3.13.1 System Status............................................................................................................. 143

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3.13.2 Administrator Password.............................................................................................. 144

3.13.3 Configuration Backup ................................................................................................. 144

3.13.4 Syslog/Mail Alert......................................................................................................... 146

3.13.5 Time and Date............................................................................................................ 148

3.13.6 Management............................................................................................................... 149

3.13.7 Reboot System........................................................................................................... 150

3.13.8 Firmware Upgrade...................................................................................................... 151

3.14 Diagnostics........................................................................................................................ 152

3.14.1 Dial-out Trigger........................................................................................................... 152

3.14.2 Routing Table ............................................................................................................. 152

3.14.3 ARP Cache Table....................................................................................................... 153

3.14.4 DHCP Table................................................................................................................ 153

3.14.5 NAT Sessions Table................................................................................................... 154

3.14.6 Wireless VLAN Online Station Table.......................................................................... 155

3.14.7 Ping Diagnosis............................................................................................................ 156

3.14.8 Data Flow Monitor....................................................................................................... 156

3.14.9 Trace Route................................................................................................................ 158

Application and Examples............................................................................159

4.1 Create a LAN-to-LAN Connection Between Remote Office and Headquarter................... 159

4.2 Create a Remote Dial-in User Connection Between the Teleworker and Headquarter...... 166

4.3 QoS Setting Example.......................................................................................................... 170

4.4 LAN – Created by Using NAT ............................................................................................. 172

4.5 Calling Scenario for VoIP function ...................................................................................... 174

4.5.1 Calling via SIP Sever.................................................................................................... 174

4.5.2 Peer-to-Peer Calling..................................................................................................... 176

4.6 Upgrade Firmware for Y our Router..................................................................................... 178

4.7 Request a certificate from a CA server on Windows CA Server......................................... 180

4.8 Request a CA Certificate and Set as Trusted on Windows CA Server............................... 184

Trouble Shooting...........................................................................................187

5.1 Checking If the Hardware Status Is OK or Not....................................................................187

5.2 Checking If the Network Connection Settings on Your Computer Is OK or Not................. 187

5.3 Pinging the Router from Your Computer............................................................................. 190

5.4 Checking If the ISP Settings are OK or Not........................................................................ 192

5.5 Backing to Factory Default Setting If Necessary ................................................................ 193

5.6 Contacting Your Dealer ....................................................................................................... 194

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The Vigor2910 series router provides Dual-WAN interface (which is a configuration second WAN) for Internet access to make the Internet connection more reliable. The wireless LAN supports more secure features and the transmission speed is up to 108Mbps (SuperG Object-oriented firewall is flexible and allows your network be safe. In addition, through VoIP function, the communication fee for you and remote people can be reduced.

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Several main buttons appeared on the web pages are defined as the following:

Save and apply current settings.

Canncel current settings and recover to the previous saved settings.

Discard current settings and allow users to input settings again.

Add new settings for specified item.

Edit the settings for the selected item.

Delete the selected item with the corresponding settings.

Note: For the other buttons shown on the web pages, please refer to Chapter 4 for detailed explanation.

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Before you use the Vigor router, please get acquainted with the LED indicators and connectors first.

The displays of LED indicators and connectors for the routers are different slightly. The following sections will introduce them respectively.

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DMZ

LED Status Explanation

ACT (Activity)

DMZ On DMZ Host is specified in certain site.

VPN On The VPN tunnel is launched. Printer On The USB interface printer is ready. WAN(W1-W2)

LAN (P1, P2, P3, P4)

QoS

Attack VPN

Printer

WAN

W2 P1

Blinking Off

On The QoS function is active. QoS Off The QoS function is inactive. On DoS Defense function is active. Attack

Blinking An attack is detected.

Orange A normal 10Mbps WAN link is ready. Green A normal 100Mbps WAN link is ready. Blinking Ethernet packets are transmitting. Orange A normal 10Mbps connection is through its

Green A normal 100Mbps connection is through its

Blinking Ethernet packets are transmitting.

LAN

P2 P3 P4

The router is powered on and running prope r l y . The router is powered off.

corresponding port.

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Printer

PWR

P2P3

P1/W2

Interface Description

Printer Connecter for a USB printer. PWR Connecter for a power adapter with 12-15VDC. ON/OFF Power Switch. LAN P4 – P1 Connecters for local networked devices. W2/W1 Connecter for accessing Internet with the ADSL,ADSL2/2+ line Factory Reset Restore the default settings.

Usage: Turn on the router (ACT LED is blinking). Press the hole and keep for more than 5 seconds. When you see the ACT LED begins to blink rapidly than usual, release the button. Then the router will restart with the factory default configuration.

Factory ResetW1

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DMZ

LED Status Explanation

DMZ On DMZ Host is specified in certain site.

WLAN

Printer On The USB interface printer is ready. WAN(W1-W2)

LAN (P1, P2, P3, P4)

QoS

Attack WLAN

Printer

WAN

W2 P1

Blinking The router is powered on and running prope r l y . ACT (Activity) Off The router is powered off.

On The QoS function is active. QoS Off The QoS function is inactive. On DoS Defense function is active. Attack

Blinking An attack is detected. On Wireless access point is ready. Blinking Wireless traffic goes through. Off Wireless access point is turned off.

Orange A no rmal 10Mbps WAN link is ready. Green A normal 100Mbps WAN link is ready. Blinking Ethernet packets are transmitting.

Orange A normal 10Mbps connection is through its corresponding

Green A normal 100Mbps connection is through its

Blinking Ethernet packets are transmitting.

LAN

P2 P3 P4

port.

corresponding port.

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Printer

PWR

P2P3P4

P1/W2

Interface Description

Printer Connecter for a USB printer. PWR Connecter for a power adapter with 12-15VDC. ON/OFF Power Switch.

LAN P4 – P1 Connecters for local networked devices. W2/W1 Connecter for accessing Internet with the ADSL,ADSL2/2+ line

Factory Reset Restore the default settings.

Factory Reset

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CT DMZ

LED Status Explanation

ACT (Activity)

DMZ On

VPN On The VPN tunnel is launched. Printer On The USB interface printer is ready. WAN(W1-W2)

LAN (P1, P2, P3, P4)

FXS1

Phone

VPN Printer P2 P3 P4

FXS2

Blinking

WAN

The router is powered on and running prope r l y .

Off The router is powered off.

DMZ Host is specified in certain site. On The phone is off hook (the handset of phone is hanging). FXS1/FXS2 Blinking A phone call is incoming or on-line.

Orange Green Blinking

Orange

A normal 10Mbps WAN link is ready.

A normal 100Mbps WAN link is ready.

Ethernet packets are transmitting.

A normal 10Mbps connection is through its corresponding

port. Green

A normal 100Mbps connection is through its corresponding

port. Blinking

Ethernet packets are transmitting.

W2 P1

LAN

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Printer

PWR

FXS2 FXS1

Factory

W1P1/W2P2P3P4

Reset

Interface Description

Printer Connecter for a USB printer. PWR Connecter for a power adapter with 12-15VDC. ON/OFF Power Switch. FXS2 & FXS1 Connecters for telephone set and analog phone with VoIP communication. LAN P4 – P1 Connecters for local networked devices. W2/W1 Connecter for accessing Internet with the ADSL,ADSL2/2+ line Factory Reset Restore the default settings.

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CT DMZ

LED Status Explanation

DMZ On

WLAN

Printer On The USB interface printer is ready. WAN(W1-W2)

LAN (P1, P2, P3, P4)

FXS1

Phone

FXS2

WLAN

Printer

WAN

Blinking The router is powered on and running properly. ACT (Activity) Off The router is powered off.

DMZ Host is specified in certain site.

On The phone is off hook (the handset of ph o ne i s ha nging). FXS1/FXS2 Blinking A phone call is incoming or on-line. On Wireless access point is ready. Blinking Wireless traffic goes through. Off Wireless access point is turned off.

Orange A normal 10Mbps WAN link is ready. Green A normal 100Mbps WAN link is ready. Blinking Ethernet packets are transmitting.

Orange A normal 10Mbps connection is through its corresponding port. Green A normal 100Mbps connection is through its corresponding

port.

Blinking Ethernet packets are transmitting.

W2 P1

LAN

P2 P3 P4

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Printer

PWR

FXS2 FXS1

P1/W2P2P3

Factory Reset

Interface Description

Printer Connecter for a USB printer. PWR Connecter for a power adapter with 12-15VDC. ON/OFF Power Switch. FXS2 & FXS1 Connecters for telephone set and the analog phone with VoIP communicati on.

LAN P4 – P1 Connecters for local networked devices. W2/W1 Connecter for accessing Internet with the ADSL,ADSL2/2+ line

Factory Reset Restore the default settings.

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Before starting to configure the router, you have to connect your devices correctly.

1. Connect this device to a router/modem with an Ethernet cable.

2. Connect one port of 4-port switch to your computer with a RJ-45 cable. This device

allows you to connect 4 PCs directly.

3. Connect one end of the power cord to the power port of this device. Connect the other

end to the wall outlet of electricity.

4. Connect the telephone sets with phone lines (for using VoIP function). For the user of

the model without VoIP ports, skip this step.

5. Connect the ISDN NT1/1+ box with ISDN cable. This connection is available for

Europe only.

6. Power on the router.

7. Check the ACT LED to assure network connections. (For the detailed information of LED status, please refer to section 1.1.)

Analog Phone Analog Phone

ADSL2+

WLAN

Link

QoS

Data

Printer

PWR

Phone Line

FXS2 FXS1

P1/W2P2P3

Cable/DSL

Modem

ISDN

Factory Reset

Internet

NT1/1+

ISDN

Caution: Each of the FXS ports can be connected to an analog phone only. Do not connect the FXS ports to the telephone wall jack. This connection might damage your router.

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For use the router properly, it is necessary for you to change the password of web configuration for security and adjust primary basic settings.

This chapter explains how to setup a password for an administrator and how to adjust basic settings for accessing Internet successfully. Be aware that only the administrator can change the router configuration.

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To change the password for this device, you have to access into the web browse with default password first.

1. Make sure your computer connects to the router correctly.

Notice: You may either simply set up your computer to get IP dynamically from the router or set up the IP address of the computer to be the same subnet as the default IP address of Vigor router 192.168.1.1. For the detailed information, please refer to the later section - Trouble Shooting of this guide.

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2. Open a web browser on your PC and type http://192.168.1.1. A pop-up window will

open to ask for username and password. Please type default values (both username and password are Null) on the window for the first time accessing and click OK for next screen.

3. Now, the Main Screen will pop up. Notice that the main screen differs according to the

model of the router that you have. Below is an example.

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4. Go to System Maintenance page and choose Administrator Password.

5. Enter the login password (the default is blank) on the field of Old Password. Type a

new one in the field of New Password and retype it on the field of Retype New Password. Then click OK to continue.

6. Now, the password has been changed. Next time, use the new password to access the

Web Configurator for this router.

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If your router can be under an environment with high speed NAT, the configuration provide here can help you to deploy and use the router quickly. The first screen of Quick Start Wizard is entering login password. After typing the password, please click Next.

On the next page as shown below, please select the WAN interface that you use. Choose Auto negotiation as the physical type for your router. Then click Next for next step.

On the next page as shown below, please select the appropriate Internet access type according to the information from your ISP. For example, you should select PPPoE mode if the ISP provides you PPPoE interface. Then click Next for next step.

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In the Quick Start Wizard, you can configure the router to access the Internet with different protocol/modes such as PPPoE, PPTP, Static IP or DHCP. The router supports the DSL WAN interface for Internet access.

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PPPoE stands for Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet. It relies on two widely accepted standards: PPP and Ethernet. It connects users through an Ethernet to the Internet with a common broadband medium, such as a single DSL line, wireless device or cable modem. All the users over the Ethernet can share a common connection.

PPPoE is used for most of DSL modem users. All local users can share one PPPoE connection for accessing the Internet. Your service provider will provide you information about user name, password, and authentication mode.

If your ISP provides you the PPPoE connection, please select PPPoE for this router. The following page will be shown:

User Name Assign a specific valid user name provided by the ISP. Password Assign a valid password provided by the ISP. Retype Password Retype the password. Click Next for viewing summary of such connection.

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Click Finish. A page of Quick Start Wizard Setup OK!!! will appear. Then, the system status of this protocol will be shown.

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Click PPTP as the protocol. Type in all the information that your ISP provides for this protocol.

Click Next for viewing summary of such connection.

Click Finish. A page of Quick Start Wizard Setup OK!!! will appear. Then, the system status of this protocol will be shown.

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Click Static IP as the protocol. Type in all the information that your ISP provides for this protocol.

After finishing the settings in this page, click Next to see the following page.

Click Finish. A page of Quick Start Wizard Setup OK!!! will appear. Then, the system status of this protocol will be shown.

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Click DHCP as the protocol. Type in all the information that your ISP provides for this protocol.

After finishing the settings in this page, click Next to see the following page.

Click Finish. A page of Quick Start Wizard Setup OK!!! will appear. Then, the system status of this protocol will be shown.

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The online status shows the system status, WAN status, ADSL Information and other status related to this router within one page. If you select PPPoE as the protocol, you will find out a button of Dial PPPoE or Dial PPPoE in the Online Status web page.

Online status for PPPoE

Online status for PPTP (for WAN2)

Online status for Static IP(for WAN1)

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Online status for DHCP

Detailed explanation is shown below:

Primary DNS Displays the IP address of the primary DNS. Secondary DNS Displays the IP address of the secondary DNS.

LAN Status

IP Address Displays the IP address of the LAN interface. TX Packets Displays the total transmitted packets at the LAN interface. RX Packets Displays the total number of received packets at the LAN interface.

WAN1/2 Status

Line Displays the physical connection (Ethernet) of this interface. Name Displays the name set in WAN1/WAN web page. Mode Displays the type of WAN connection (e.g., PPPoE). Up Time Displays the total uptime of the interface. IP Displays the IP address of the WAN interface. GW IP Displays the IP address of the default gateway. TX Packets Displays the total transmitted packets at the WAN interface. TX Rate Displays the speed of transmitted octets at the WAN interface. RX Packets Displays the total number of received packets at the WAN

interface.

RX Rate Displays the speed of received octets at the WAN interface.

Note: The words in green mean that the WAN connection of that interface

(WAN1/WAN2) is ready for accessing Internet; the words in red mean that the WAN connection of that interface (WAN1/WAN2) is not ready for accessing Internet.

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Each time you click OK on the web page for saving the configuration, you can find messages showing the system interaction with you.

Ready indicates the system is ready for you to input settings. Settings Saved means your settings are saved once you click Finish or OK button.

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This page is left blank.

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After finished basic configuration of the router, you can access Internet with ease. For the people who want to adjust more setting for suiting his/her request, please refer to this chapter for getting detailed information about the advanced configuration of this router. As for other examples of application, please refer to chapter 4.

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Quick Start Wizard offers user an easy method to quick setup the connection mode for the router. Moreover, if you want to adjust more settings for different WAN modes, please go to WAN group and click the Internet Access link.

IP means Internet Protocol. Every device in an IP-based Network including routers, print server, and host PCs, needs an IP address to identify its location on the network. To avoid address conflicts, IP addresses are publicly registered with the Network Information Centre (NIC). Having a unique IP address is mandatory for those devices participated in the public network but not in the private TCP/IP local area networks (LANs), such as host PCs under the management of a router since they do not need to be accessed by the public. Hence, the NIC has reserved certain addresses that will never be registered publicly. These are known as private IP addresses, and are listed in the following ranges:

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From 10.0.0.0 to 10.255.255.255 From 172.16.0.0 to 172.31.255.255 From 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.255.255

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As the router plays a role to manage and further protect its LAN, it interconnects groups of host PCs. Each of them has a private IP address assigned by the built-in DHCP server of the Vigor router. The router itself will also use the default private IP address: 192.168.1.1 to communicate with the local hosts. Meanwhile, Vigor router will communicate with other network devices through a public IP address. When the data flow passing through, the Network Address Translation (NAT) function of the router will dedicate to translate public/private addresses, and the packets will be delivered to the correct host PC in the local area network. Thus, all the host PCs can share a common Internet connection.

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In ADSL deployment, the PPP (Point to Point)-style authentication and authorization is required for bridging customer premises equipment (CPE). Point to Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) connects a network of hosts via an access device to a remote access concentrator or aggregation concentrator. This implementation provides users with significant ease of use. Meanwhile it provides access control, billing, and type of service according to user requirement.

When a router begins to connect to your ISP, a serial of discovery process will occur to ask for a connection. Then a session will be created. Your user ID and password is authenticated via PAP or CHAP with RADIUS authentication system. And your IP address, DNS server, and other related information will usually be assigned by your ISP.

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Below shows the menu items for Internet Access.

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This section will introduce some general settings of Internet and explain the connection modes for WAN1 and WAN2 in details.

This router supports dual WAN function. It allows users to access Internet and combine the bandwidth of the dual WAN to speed up the transmission through the network. Each WAN port (WAN1- through WAN port/WAN2- through LAN1 port) can connect to different ISPs, Even if the ISPs use different technology to provide telecommunication service (such as DSL, Cable modem, etc.). If any connection problem occurred on one of the ISP connections, all the traffic will be guided and switched to the normal communication port for proper operation. Please configure WAN1 and WAN2 settings.

This webpage allows you to set general setup for WAN1 and WAN respectively.

Note: In default, WAN1 is enabled. WAN2 is optional.

Enable Choose Yes to invoke the settings for this WAN interface.

Choose No to disable the settings for this WAN interface.

Display Name Type the description for the WAN1/WAN2 interface. Physical Mode For WAN1, the physical connection is done through ADSL

port; yet the physical connection for WAN2 is done through an Ethernet port (P1). You cannot change it.

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Physical Type You can change the physical type for WAN2 or choose Auto

negotiation for determined by the system.

Load Balance Mode If you know the practical bandwidth for your WAN interface,

please choose the setting of According to Line Speed. Otherwise, please choose Auto Weigh to let the router reach the best load balance.

Line Speed If your choose According to Line Speed as the Load

Balance Mode, please type the line speed for downloading

and uploading through WAN1/WAN2. The unit is kbps.

Active Mode Choose Always On to make the WAN connection

(WAN1/WAN2) being activated always; or choose Active on demand to make the WAN connection (WAN1/WAN2) activated if it is necessary.

If you choose Active on demand, the Idle Timeout will be available for you to set for PPPoE and PPTP access modes in the Details Page of WAN>>Internet Access. In addition, there are three selections for you to choose for different purposes. WAN2 Fail – It means the connection for WAN1 will be activated when WAN2 is failed. WAN2 Upload speed exceed XX kbps – It means the connection for WAN1 will be activated when WAN2 Upload speed exceed certain value that you set in this box for 15 seconds. WAN2 Download speed exceed XX kbps– It means the connection for WAN1 will be activated when WAN2 Download speed exceed certain value that you set in this box for 15 seconds. WAN1 Fail – It means the connection for WAN2 will be activated when WAN1 is failed. WAN1 Upload speed exceed XX kbps – It means the connection for WAN2 will be activated when WAN1 Upload speed exceed certain value that you set in this box for 15 seconds. WAN1 Download speed exceed XX kbps– It means the connection for WAN2 will be activated when WAN1 Download speed exceed certain value that you set in this box for 15 seconds.

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For the router supports dual WAN function, the users can set different WAN settings (for WAN1/WAN2) for Internet Access. Due to different physical mode for WAN1 and WAN2, the Access Mode for these two connections also varies slightly.

Index It shows the WAN modes that this router supports. WAN1 is the

default WAN interface for accessing into the Internet. WAN2 is the optional WAN interface for accessing into the Internet when WAN 1 is inactive for some reason.

Display Name It shows the name of the WAN1/WAN2 that entered in general

setup.

Physical Mode It shows the physical port for WAN1/WAN2. Access Mode Use the drop down list to choose a proper access mode. The details

page of that mode will be popped up. If not, click Details Page for accessing the page to configure the settings.

There are three access modes provided for PPPoE, Static or Dynamic IP and PPTP.

Details Page This button will open different web page according to the access

mode that you choose in WAN1 or WAN2.

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To use PPPoE as the accessing protocol of the internet, please choose Internet Access from WAN menu. Then, select PPPoE mode for WAN2. The following web page will be shown.

PPPoE Client Mode Click Enable for activating this function. If you click Disable, this

function will be closed and all the settings that you adjusted in this page will be invalid.

ISP Access Setup Enter your allocated username, password and authentication

parameters according to the information provided by your ISP. If you want to connect to Internet all the time, you can check Always

On. Username – Type in the username provided by ISP in this field. Password – Type in the password provided by ISP in this field. Index (1-15) in Schedule Setup - You can type in four sets of time

schedule for your request. All the schedules can be set previously in Application – Schedule web page and you can use the number that you have set in that web page.

ISDN Dial Backup Setup

This setting is available for the routers supporting ISDN function only. Before utilizing the ISDN dial backup feature, you must create a dial backup profile first. Please click Internet Access Setup > Dialing to a Single ISP to enter the backup profile.

This setting is available for i model only. Due to the absence of the ISDN interface in some models, the

ISDN dial backup feature and its associated setup options are not available to them. Please refer to the previous part for further information.

None - Disable the backup function. Packet Trigger -The backup line is not on until a packet from a

local host triggers the router to establish a connection.

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Always On - If the broadband connection is no longer available, the backup line will be activated automatically and always on until the broadband connection is restored. We recommend you to enable this feature if you host a web server for your customers’ access.

PPP/MP Setup PPP Authentication – Select PAP only or PAP or CHAP for

PPP. Idle Timeout – Set the timeout for breaking down the Internet after passing through the time without any action. This setting is active only when the Active on demand option for Active Mode is selected in WAN>> General Setup page.

IP Address Assignment Method (IPCP)

Usually ISP dynamically assigns IP address to you each time you connect to it and request. In some case, your ISP provides service to always assign you the same IP address whenever you request. In this case, you can fill in this IP address in the Fixed IP field. Please contact your ISP before you want to use this function.

WAN IP Alias - If you have multiple public IP addresses and would like to utilize them on the WAN interface, please use WAN IP Alias. You can set up to 8 public IP addresses other than the current one you are using.

Fixed IP – Click Yes to use this function and type in a fixed IP address in the box of Fixed IP Address. Default MAC Address – You can use Default MAC Address or specify another MAC address by typing on the boxes of MAC Address for the router. Specify a MAC Address – Type the MAC address for the router manually.

After finishing all the settings here, please click OK to activate them.

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For static IP mode, you usually receive a fixed public IP address or a public subnet, namely multiple public IP addresses from your DSL or Cable ISP service providers. In most cases, a Cable service provider will offer a fixed public IP, while a DSL service provider will offer a public subnet. If you have a public subnet, you could assign an IP address or many IP address to the WAN interface.

To use Static or Dynamic IP as the accessing protocol of the internet, please choose Internet Access from WAN menu. Then, select Static or Dynamic IP mode for WAN2. The following web page will be shown.

Static or Dynamic IP (DHCP Client)

ISDN Dial Backup Setup

Click Enable for activating this function. If you click Disable, this function will be closed and all the settings that you adjusted in this page will be invalid.

Due to the absence of the ISDN interface in some models, the ISDN dial backup feature and its associated setup options are not available to them. Please refer to the previous part for further information.

None - Disable the backup function. Packet Trigger -The backup line is not on until a packet from a

local host triggers the router to establish a connection. Always On - If the broadband connection is no longer available, the backup line will be activated automatically and always on until the broadband connection is restored. We recommend you to

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enable this feature if you host a web server for your customers’ access.

Keep WAN Connection

Normally, this function is designed for Dynamic IP environments because some ISPs will drop connections if there is no traffic within certain periods of time. Check Enable PING to keep alive box to activate this function. PING to the IP - If you enable the PING function, please specify the IP address for the system to PING it for keeping alive. PING Interval - Enter the interval for the system to execute the PING operation.

RIP Protocol Routing Information Protocol is abbreviated as RIP（RFC1058）

specifying how routers exchange routing tables information. Click

Enable RIP for activating this function.

WAN IP Network Settings

This group allows you to obtain an IP address automatically and allows you type in IP address manually.

Obtain an IP address automatically – Click this button to obtain the IP address automatically if you want to use Dynamic IP mode.

Router Name: Type in the router name provided by ISP. Domain Name: Type in the domain name that you have assigned.

Specify an IP address – Click this radio button to specify some data if you want to use Static IP mode.

IP Address: Type the IP address. Subnet Mask: Type the subnet mask. Gateway IP Address: Type the gateway IP address. Default MAC Address : Click this radio button to use default MAC

address for the router. Specify a MAC Address: Some Cable service providers specify a

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specific MAC address for access authentication. In such cases you need to click the Specify a MAC Address and enter the MAC address in the MAC Address field.

DNS Server IP Address

Type in the primary IP address for the router if you want to use Static IP mode. If necessary, type in secondary IP address for necessity in the future.

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To use PPTP as the accessing protocol of the internet, please choose Internet Access from WAN menu. Then, select PPTP mode for WAN2. The following web page will be shown.

PPTP Setup PPTP Link - Click Enable to enable a PPTP client to establish a

tunnel to a DSL modem on the WAN interface.

PPTP Server - Specify the IP address of the PPTP server.

ISP Access Setup Username -Type in the username provided by ISP in this field.

Password -Type in the password provided by ISP in this field. Index (1-15) in Schedule Setup - You can type in four sets of time

schedule for your request. All the schedules can be set previously in Application – Schedule web page and you can use the number that you have set in that web page.

ISDN Dial Backup Setup

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Packet Trigger -The backup line is not on until a packet from a local host triggers the router to establish a connection. Always On - If the broadband connection is no longer available, the backup line will be activated automatically and always on until the broadband connection is restored. We recommend you to enable this feature if you host a web server for your customers’ access.

PPP Setup PPP Authentication - Select PAP only or PAP or CHAP for PPP .

Idle Timeout - Set the timeout for breaking down the Internet after

passing through the time without any action. This setting is active only when the Active on demand option for Active Mode is selected in WAN>> General Setup page.

IP Address Assignment Method(IPCP)

Fixed IP - Usually ISP dynamically assigns IP address to you each

time you connect to it and request. In some case, your ISP provides service to always assign you the same IP address whenever you request. In this case, you can fill in this IP address in the Fixed IP field. Please contact your ISP before you want to use this function. Click Yes to use this function and type in a fixed IP address in the box.

Fixed IP Address -Type a fixed IP address. WAN IP Alias - If you have multiple public IP addresses and

would like to utilize them on the WAN interface, please use WAN IP Alias. You can set up to 8 public IP addresses other than the current one you are using. Notice that this setting is available for WAN1 only.

Default MAC Address – Click this radio button to use default MAC address for the router. Specify a MAC Address - Some Cable service providers specify a specific MAC address for access authentication. In such cases you need to click the Specify a MAC Address and enter the MAC address in the MAC Address field.

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This router supports the function of load balancing. It can assign traffic with protocol type, IP address for specific host, a subnet of hosts, and port range to be allocated in WAN1 or WAN2 interface. The user can assign traffic category and force it to go to dedicate network interface based on the following web page setup. Twenty policies of load-balance are supported by this router.

Note: Load-Balance Policy is running only when both WAN1 and WAN2 are activated.

Obtain an IP address automatically – Click this button to obtain the IP address automatically.

Specify an IP address – Click this radio button to specify some data.

IP Address – Type the IP address. Subnet Mask – Type the subnet mask.

Index Click the number of index to access into the load-balance policy

Enable Check this box to enable this policy. Protocol Use the drop-down menu to change the protocol for the WAN

WAN Use the drop-down menu to change the WAN interface. Src IP Start Displays the IP address for the start of the source IP. Src IP End Displays the IP address for the end of the source IP. Dest IP Start Displays the IP address for the start of the destination IP.

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configuration web page.

interface.

Dest IP End Displays the IP address for the end of the destination IP. Dest Port Start Displays the IP address for the start of the destination port. Dest Port End Displays the IP address for the end of the destination port. Click Index 1 to access into the following page for configuring load-balance policy.

Enable Check this box to enable this policy. Protocol Use the drop-down menu to choose a proper protocol for the WAN

interface.

Binding WAN

Choose the WAN interface (WAN1 or WAN2) for binding.

interface Src IP Start Type the source IP start for the specified WAN interface. Src IP End Type the source IP end for the specified WAN interface. If this

field is blank, it means that all the source IPs inside the LAN will be passed through the WAN interface.

Dest IP Start Type the destination IP start for the specified WAN interface.

Dest IP End Type the destination IP end for the specified WAN interface. If this

field is blank, it means that all the destination IPs will be passed through the WAN interface.

Dest Port Start Type the destination port start for the destination IP.

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Dest Port End Type the destination port end for the destination IP. If this field is

blank, it means that all the destination ports will be passed through the WAN interface.

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Local Area Network (LAN) is a group of subnets regulated and ruled by router. The design of network structure is related to what type of public IP addresses coming from your ISP.

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The most generic function of Vigor router is NAT. It creates a private subnet of your own. As mentioned previously, the router will talk to other public hosts on the Internet by using public IP address and talking to local hosts by using its private IP address. What NAT does is to translate the packets from public IP address to private IP address to forward the right packets to the right host and vice versa. Besides, Vigor router has a built-in DHCP server that assigns private IP address to each local host. See the following diagram for a briefly understanding.

In some special case, you may have a public IP subnet from your ISP such as

220.135.240.0/24. This means that you can set up a public subnet or call second subnet that each host is equipped with a public IP address. As a part of the public subnet, the Vigor router will serve for IP routing to help hosts in the public subnet to communicate with other public hosts or servers outside. Therefore, the router should be set as the gateway for public hosts.

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Vigor router will exchange routing information with neighboring routers using the RIP to accomplish IP routing. This allows users to change the information of the router such as IP address and the routers will automatically inform for each other.

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When you have several subnets in your LAN, sometimes a more effective and quicker way for connection is the Static routes function rather than other method. You may simply set rules to forward data from one specified subnet to another specified subnet without the presence of RIP.

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You can group local hosts by physical ports and create up to 4 virtual LANs. To manage the communication between different groups, please set up rules in Virtual LAN (VLAN) function and the rate of each.

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This page provides you the general settings for LAN. Click LAN to open the LAN settings page and choose General Setup.

1st IP Address Type in private IP address for connecting to a local private network

(Default: 192.168.1.1).

1st Subnet Mask Type in an address code that determines the size of the network.

(Default: 255.255.255.0/ 24)

For IP Routing Usage Click Enable to invoke this function. The default setting is

Disable.

IP Address Type in secondary IP address for connecting to a subnet.

(Default: 192.168.2.1/ 24)

Subnet Mask An address code that determines the size of the network.

(Default: 255.255.255.0/ 24)

DHCP Server You can configure the router to serve as a DHCP server for the 2nd

subnet.

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Start IP Address: Enter a value of the IP address pool for the DHCP server to start with when issuing IP addresses. If the 2nd IP address of your router is 220.135.240.1, the starting IP address must be 220.135.240.2 or greater, but smaller than

220.135.240.254.

IP Pool Counts: Enter the number of IP addresses in the pool. The maximum is 10. For example, if you type 3 and the 2nd IP address of your router is 220.135.240.1, the range of IP address by the DHCP server will be from 220.135.240.2 to 220.135.240.11.

MAC Address: Enter the MAC Address of the host one by one and click Add to create a list of hosts to be assigned, deleted or edited IP address from above pool. Set a list of MAC Address for

DHCP server will help router to assign the correct IP address of the correct subnet to the correct host. So those hosts in 2 won’t get an IP address belonging to 1

subnet.

subnet

RIP Protocol Control Disable deactivates the RIP protocol. It will lead to a stoppage of

the exchange of routing information between routers. (Default)

1st Subnet - Select the router to change the RIP information of the 1st subnet with neighboring routers. 2nd Subnet - Select the router to change the RIP information of the 2nd subnet with neighboring routers.

DHCP Server Configuration

DHCP stands for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. The router by factory default acts a DHCP server for your network so it automatically dispatch related IP settings to any local user configured as a DHCP client. It is highly recommended that you leave the router enabled as a DHCP server if you do not have a DHCP server for your network.

If you want to use another DHCP server in the network other than

the Vigor Router’s, you can let Relay Agent help you to redirect the DHCP request to the specified location. Enable Server - Let the router assign IP address to every host in the LAN. Disable Server – Let you manually assign IP address to every host in the LAN.

Relay Agent – (1

subnet/2nd subnet) Specify which subnet that

DHCP server is located the relay agent should redirect the DHCP request to. Start IP Address - Enter a value of the IP address pool for the DHCP server to start with when issuing IP addresses. If the 1st IP address of your router is 192.168.1.1, the starting IP address must be 192.168.1.2 or greater, but smaller than 192.168.1.254. IP Pool Counts - Enter the maximum number of PCs that you want the DHCP server to assign IP addresses to. The default is 50 and the maximum is 253. Gateway IP Address - Enter a value of the gateway IP address for the DHCP server. The value is usually as same as the 1st IP address of the router, which means the router is the default gateway.

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DHCP Server IP Address for Relay Agent - Set the IP address of the DHCP server you are going to use so the Relay Agent can help to forward the DHCP request to the DHCP server.

DNS Server Configuration

DNS stands for Domain Name System. Every Internet host must have a unique IP address, also they may have a human-friendly, easy to remember name such as www.yahoo.com. The DNS server converts the user-friendly name into its equivalent IP address.

Force DNS manual setting -

in this page instead of DNS servers given by the Internet Access server (PPPoE, PPTP, L2TP or DHCP server). Primary IP Address -You must specify a DNS server IP address here because your ISP should provide you with usually more than one DNS Server. If your ISP does not provide it, the router will automatically apply default DNS Server IP address: 194.109.6.66 to this field. Secondary IP Address - You can specify secondary DNS server IP address here because your ISP often provides you more than one DNS Server. If your ISP does not provide it, the router will automatically apply default secondary DNS Server IP address:

194.98.0.1 to this field. The default DNS Server IP address can be found via Online Status:

If both the Primary IP and Secondary IP Address fields are left empty, the router will assign its own IP address to local users as a DNS proxy server and maintain a DNS cache.

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There are two common scenarios of LAN settings that stated in Chapter 4. For the configuration examples, please refer to that chapter to get more information for your necessity.

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Go to LAN to open setting page and choose Static Route.

Index The number (1 to 10) under Index allows you to open next page to

If the IP address of a domain name is already in the DNS cache, the router will resolve the domain name immediately. Otherwise, the router forwards the DNS query packet to the external DNS server by establishing a WAN (e.g. DSL/Cable) connection.

set up static route.

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Destination Address Displays the destination address of the static route. Status Displays the status of the static route. Viewing Routing Table Displays the routing table for your reference.

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Here is an example of setting Static Route in Main Router so that user A and B locating in different subnet can talk to each other via the router. Assuming the Internet access has been configured and the router works properly:

z use the Main Router to surf the Internet. z create a private subnet 192.168.10.0 using an internal Router A (192.168.1.2) z create a public subnet 211.100.88.0 via an internal Router B (192.168.1.3). z have set Main Router 192.168.1.1 as the default gateway for the Router A 192.168.1.2.

Before setting Static Route, user A cannot talk to user B for Router A can only forward recognized packets to its default gateway Main Router.

1. Go to LAN page and click General Setup, select 1st Subnet as the RIP Protocol

Control. Then click the OK button.

Note: There are two reasons that we have to apply RIP Protocol Control on 1st Subnet. The first is that the LAN interface can exchange RIP packets with the neighboring routers via the 1st subnet (192.168.1.0/24). The second

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is that those hosts on the internal private subnets (ex. 192.168.10.0/24) can access the Internet via the router, and continuously exchange of IP routing information with different subnets.

2. Click the LAN - Static Route and click on the Index Number 1. Check the Enable

box. Please add a static route as shown below, which regulates all packets destined to

192.168.10.0 will be forwarded to 192.168.1.2. Click OK.

3. Return to Static Route Setup page. Click on another Index Number to add another

static route as show below, which regulates all packets destined to 211.100.88.0 will be forwarded to 192.168.1.3.

4. Go to Diagnostics and choose Routing Table to verify current routing table.

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1. Go to LAN page and click Static Route to open the web page. Select the index number

of the one that you want to delete.

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2. Select Empty/Clear from the drop-down menu, and then click the OK button to delete

the route.

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1. Click the Index Number that you want to disable from the Static Route

Configuration page.

2. Select Inactive/Disable from the drop-down menu, and then click the OK button to

disable the route.

Usually, the router serves as an NAT (Network Address Translation) router. NAT is a mechanism that one or more private IP addresses can be mapped into a single public one. Public IP address is usually assigned by your ISP, for which you may get charged. Private IP addresses are recognized only among internal hosts.

When the outgoing packets destined to some public server on the Internet reach the NAT router, the router will change its source address into the public IP address of the router, select the available public port, and then forward it. At the same time, the router shall list an entry in a table to memorize this address/port-mapping relationship. When the public server response, the incoming traffic, of course, is destined to the router’s public IP address and the router will do the inversion based on its table. Therefore, the internal host can communicate with external host smoothly.

The benefit of the NAT includes: z Save cost on applying public IP address and apply efficient usage of IP address.

NAT allows the internal IP addresses of local hosts to be translated into one public IP address, thus you can have only one IP address on behalf of the entire internal hosts.

z Enhance security of the internal network by obscuring the IP address. There are

many attacks aiming victims based on the IP address. Since the attacker cannot be aware of any private IP addresses, the NAT function can protect the internal network.

On NAT page, you will see the private IP address defined in RFC-1918. Usually we use the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet for the router. As stated before, the NAT facility can map one or more IP addresses and/or service ports into different specified services. In other words, the NAT function can be achieved by using port mapping methods.

Below shows the menu items for NAT.

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Port Redirection is usually set up for server related service inside the local network (LAN), such as web servers, FTP servers, E-mail servers etc. Most of the case, you need a public IP address for each server and this public IP address/domain name are recognized by all users. Since the server is actually located inside the LAN, the network well protected by NAT of the router, and identified by its private IP address/port, the goal of Port Redirection function is to forward all access request with public IP address from external users to the mapping private IP address/port of the server.

The port redirection can only apply to incoming traffic. To use this function, please go to NAT page and choose Port Redirection web page. The

Port Redirection Table provides 10 port-mapping entries for the internal hosts.

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Mode Two options are provided here for you to choose. To set a range for

the specific service, select Range.

Service Name Enter the description of the specific network service. Protocol Select the transport layer protocol (TCP or UDP). Public Port Specify which port can be redirected to the specified Private IP

and Port of the internal host. If you choose Range as the port

redirection mode, you will see two boxes on this field. Simply type the required number on the first box. The second one will be assigned automatically later.

Private IP Specify the private IP address of the internal host providing the

service. If you choose Range as the port redirection mode, you will see two boxes on this field. Type a complete IP address in the first box (as the starting point) and the fourth digits in the second box (as the end point).

Private Port Specify the private port number of the service offered by the

internal host.

Active Check this box to activate the port-mapping entry you have

defined.

Note that the router has its own built-in services (servers) such as Telnet, HTTP and FTP etc. Since the common port numbers of these services (servers) are all the same, you may need to reset the router in order to avoid confliction.

For example, the built-in web configurator in the router is with default port 80, which may conflict with the web server in the local network, http://192.168.1.13:80. Therefore, you need to change the router’s http port to any one other than the default port 80 to avoid conflict, such as 8080. This can be set in the System Maintenance >>Management Setup. You then will access the admin screen of by suffixing the IP address with 8080, e.g., http://192.168.1.1:8080 instead of port 80.

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As mentioned above, Port Redirection can redirect incoming TCP/UDP or other traffic on particular ports to the specific private IP address/port of host in the LAN. However, other IP protocols, for example Protocols 50 (ESP) and 51 (AH), do not travel on a fixed port. Vigor router provides a facility DMZ Host that maps ALL unsolicited data on any protocol to a single host in the LAN. Regular web surfing and other such Internet activities from other clients will continue to work without inappropriate interruption. DMZ Host allows a defined internal user to be totally exposed to the Internet, which usually helps some special applications such as Netmeeting or Internet Games etc.

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The inherent security properties of NAT are somewhat bypassed if you set up DMZ host. We suggest you to add additional filter rules or a secondary firewall.

Click DMZ Host to open the following page:

If you previously have set up WAN Alias in Internet Access>>PPPoE/PPPoA or Internet

Access>>MPoA, you will find them in Aux. WAN IP list for your selection.

Enable Check to enable the DMZ Host function. Private IP Enter the private IP address of the DMZ host, or click Choose PC

Choose PC Click this button and then a window will automatically pop up, as

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to select one.

depicted below. The window consists of a list of private IP addresses of all hosts in your LAN network. Select one private IP address in the list to be the DMZ host.

When you have selected one private IP from the above dialog, the IP address will be shown on the following screen. Click OK to save the setting.

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Open Ports allows you to open a range of ports for the traffic of special applications. Common application of Open Ports includes P2P application (e.g., BT, KaZaA, Gnutella, WinMX, eMule and others), Internet Camera etc. Ensure that you keep the application involved up-to-date to avoid falling victim to any security exploits.

Click Open Ports to open the following page:

Index Indicate the relative number for the particular entry that you want to

offer service in a local host. You should click the appropriate index number to edit or clear the corresponding entry.

Comment Specify the name for the defined network service.

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WAN Interface Display the WAN interface for the entry. Local IP Address Display the private IP address of the local host offering the service. Status Display the state for the corresponding entry. X or V is to represent

the Inactive or Active state.

To add or edit port settings, click one index number on the page. The index entry setup page will pop up. In each index entry, you can specify 10 port ranges for diverse services.

Enable Open Ports Check to enable this entry. Comment Make a name for the defined network application/service. WAN Interface Specify the WAN interface that will be used for this entry. Local Computer Enter the private IP address of the local host or click Choose PC to

select one.

Choose PC Click this button and, subsequently, a window having a list of

private IP addresses of local hosts will automatically pop up. Select the appropriate IP address of the local host in the list.

Protocol Specify the transport layer protocol. It could be TCP, UDP, or -----

(none) for selection.

Start Port Specify the starting port number of the service offered by the local

host.

End Port Specify the ending port number of the service offered by the local

host.

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While the broadband users demand more bandwidth for multimedia, interactive applications, or distance learning, security has been always the most concerned. The firewall of the Vigor router helps to protect your local network against attack from unauthorized outsiders. It also restricts users in the local network from accessing the Internet. Furthermore, it can filter out specific packets that trigger the router to build an unwanted outgoing connection.

The most basic security concept is to set user name and password while you install your router. The administrator login will prevent unauthorized access to the router configuration from your router.

If you did not set password during installation; you can go to System Maintenance to set up your password.

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The users on the LAN are provided with secured protection by the following firewall facilities:

z User-configurable IP filter (Call Filter/ Data Filter). z Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI): tracks packets and denies unsolicited incoming data z Selectable Denial of Service (DoS) /Distributed DoS (DDoS) attacks protection z URL Content Filter

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Depending on whether there is an existing Internet connection, or in other words “the WAN link status is up or down”, the IP filter architecture categorizes traffic into two: Call Filter and Data Filter.

z Call Filter - When there is no existing Internet connection, Call Filter is applied to all

traffic, all of which should be outgoing. It will check packets according to the filter rules. If legal, the packet will pass. Then the router shall “initiate a call” to build the Internet connection and send the packet to Internet.

z Data Filter - When there is an existing Internet connection, Data Filter is applied to

incoming and outgoing traffic. It will check packets according to the filter rules. If legal, the packet will pass the router.

The following illustrations are flow charts explaining how router will treat incoming traffic and outgoing traffic respectively.

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Stateful inspection is a firewall architecture that works at the network layer. Unlike legacy static packet filtering, which examines a packet based on the information in its header, stateful inspection builds up a state machine to track each connection traversing all interfaces of the firewall and makes sure they are valid. The stateful firewall of Vigor router not just examine the header information also monitor the state of the connection.

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As the popularity of all kinds of instant messenger application arises, communication cannot become much easier. Nevertheless, while some industry may leverage this as a great tool to connect with their customers, some industry may take reserve attitude in order to reduce employee misusage during office hour or prevent unknown security leak. It is similar situation for corporation towards peer-to-peer applications since file-sharing can be convenient but insecure at the same time. To address these needs, we provide CSM functionality.

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The DoS Defense functionality helps you to detect and mitigate the DoS attack. The attacks are usually categorized into two types, the flooding-type attacks and the vulnerability attacks. The flooding-type attacks will attempt to exhaust all your system's resource while the vulnerability attacks will try to paralyze the system by offending the vulnerabilities of the protocol or operation system.

The DoS Defense function enables the Vigor router to inspect every incoming packet based on the attack signature database. Any malicious packet that might duplicate itself to paralyze the host in the secure LAN will be strictly blocked and a Syslog message will be sent as warning, if you set up Syslog server.

Also the Vigor router monitors the traffic. Any abnormal traffic flow violating the pre-defined parameter, such as the number of thresholds, is identified as an attack and the Vigor router will activate its defense mechanism to mitigate in a real-time manner.

The below shows the attack types that DoS/DDoS defense function can detect:

1. SYN flood attack

2. UDP flood attack

3. ICMP flood attack

4. TCP Flag scan

5. Trace route

6. IP options

7. Unknown protocol

8. Land attack

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9. Smurf attack

10. SYN fragment

11. ICMP fragment

12. Tear drop attack

13. Fraggle attack

14. Ping of Death attack

15. TCP/UDP port scan

To provide an appropriate cyberspace to users, Vigor router equips with URL Content Filter not only to limit illegal traffic from/to the inappropriate web sites but also prohibit other web feature where malicious code may conceal.

Once a user type in or click on an URL with objectionable keywords, URL keyword blocking facility will decline the HTTP request to that web page thus can limit user’s access to the website. You may imagine URL Content Filter as a well-trained convenience-store clerk who won’t sell adult magazines to teenagers. At office, URL Content Filter can also provide a job-related only environment hence to increase the employee work efficiency. How can URL Content Filter work better than traditional firewall in the field of filtering? Because it checks the URL strings or some of HTTP data hiding in the payload of TCP packets while legacy firewall inspects packets based on the fields of TCP/IP headers only.

On the other hand, Vigor router can prevent user from accidentally downloading malicious codes from web pages. It’s very common that malicious codes conceal in the executable objects, such as ActiveX, Java Applet, compressed files, and other executable files. Once downloading these types of files from websites, you may risk bringing threat to your system. For example, an ActiveX control object is usually used for providing interactive web feature. If malicious code hides inside, it may occupy user’s system.

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We all know that the content on the Internet just like other types of media may be inappropriate sometimes. As a responsible parent or employer, you should protect those in your trust against the hazards. With Web filtering service of the Vigor router, you can protect your business from common primary threats, such as productivity, legal liability, network and security threats. For parents, you can protect your children from viewing adult websites or chat rooms.

Once you have activated your Web Filtering service in Vigor router and chosen the categories of website you wish to restrict, each URL address requested (e.g.www.bbc.co.uk) will be checked against our server database, powered by SurfControl. The database covering over 70 languages and 200 countries, over 1 billion Web pages divided into 40 easy-to-understand categories. This database is updated as frequent as daily by a global team of Internet researchers. The server will look up the URL and return a category to your router. Your Vigor router will then decide whether to allow access to this site according to the categories you have selected. Please note that this action will not introduce any delay in your Web surfing because each of multiple load balanced database servers can handle millions of requests for categorization.

Below shows the menu items for Firewall.

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General Setup allows you to adjust settings of IP Filter and common options. Here you can enable or disable the Call Filter or Data Filter. Under some circumstance, your filter set can be linked to work in a serial manner. So here you assign the Start Filter Set only. Also you can configure the Log Flag settings, Apply IP filter to VPN incoming packets, and Accept incoming fragmented UDP packets.

Click Firewall and click General Setup to open the general setup page.

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Call Filter Check Enable to activate the Call Filter function. Assign a start

filter set for the Call Filter.

Data Filter Check Enable to activate the Data Filter function. Assign a start

filter set for the Data Filter.

Log Flag For troubleshooting needs you can specify the filter log here.

None - The log function is not activated. Block - All blocked packets will be logged. Pass - All passed packets will be logged. No Match - The log function will record all packets that are not

matched. Note that the filter log will be displayed on the Telnet terminal when you type the log -f command.

Pass or Block Select Pass or Block for the packets that do not match with the

filter rules.

Content Management Select a CSM profile for global IM/P2P application blocking. All

the hosts in LAN must follow the standard configured in the CSM profile selected here. For detailed information, refer to the section of CSM profile setup.

Some on-line games (for example: Half Life) will use lots of fragmented UDP packets to transfer game data. Instinctively as a secure firewall, Vigor router will reject these fragmented packets to prevent attack unless you enable “Accept Incoming Fragmented UDP Packets”. By checking this box, you can play these kinds of on-line games. If security concern is in higher priority, you cannot enable “Accept Incoming Fragmented UDP Packets”.

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Click Firewall and click Filter Setup to open the setup page.

To edit or add a filter, click on the set number to edit the individual set. The following page will be shown. Each filter set contains up to 7 rules. Click on the rule number button to edit each rule. Check Active to enable the rule.

Filter Rule Click a button numbered (1 ~ 7) to edit the filter rule. Click the

button will open Edit Filter Rule web page. For the detailed information, refer to the following page.

Active Enable or disable the filter rule. Comment Enter filter set comments/description. Maximum length is

23–character long.

Move Up/Down Use Up or Down link to move the order of the filter rules. Next Filter Set Set the link to the next filter set to be executed after the current

filter run. Do not make a loop with many filter sets.

To edit Filter Rule, click the Filter Rule index button to enter the Filter Rule setup page.

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Check to enable the

Check this box to enable the filter rule.

Filter Rule Comments Enter filter set comments/description. Maximum length is 14-

character long.

Index(1-15) Set the PCs on LAN to work at certain time interval only. You may

choose up to 4 schedules out of the 15 schedules pre-defined in Applications >> Schedule setup. The default setting of this filed is blank and the function will always work.

Direction Set the direction of packet flow (LAN->WAN/WAN->LAN). It is

for Data Filter only. For the Call Filter, this setting is not available since Call Filter is only applied to outgoing traffic.

Source/Destination IP Click Edit to access into the following dialog to choose the

source/destination IP or IP ranges.

To set the IP address manually, please choose Any Address/Single Address/Range Address/Subnet Address as the Address Type and type them in this dialog. In addition, if you want to use the IP

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range from defined groups or objects, please choose Group and Objects as the Address Type.

From the IP Group drop down list, choose the one that you want to apply. Or use the IP Object drop down list to choose the object that you want.

Service Type Click Edit to access into the following dialog to choose a suitable

service type.

To set the service type manually, please choose User defined as the Service Type and type them in this dialog. In addition, if you want to use the service type from defined groups or objects, please choose Group and Objects as the Service Type.

Protocol - Specify the protocol(s) which this filter rule will apply to. Source/Destination Port -

(=) – when the first and last value are the same, it indicates one port; when the first and last values are different, it indicates a range for the port and available for this service type. (!=) – when the first and last value are the same,

it indicates all

the ports except the port defined here; when the first and last

values are different, it indicates that all the ports except the range defined here are available for this service type.

(>) – the port number greater than this value is available. (<) – the port number less than this value is available for this

profile. Service Group/Object - Use the drop down list to choose the one that you want.

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Fragments Specify the action for fragmented packe t s. And it is used for Data

Filter only.

Don’t care -No action will be taken towards fragmented packets. Unfragmented -Apply the rule to unfragmented packets. Fragmented - Apply the rule to fragmented packets. Too Short - Apply the rule only to packets that are too short to

contain a complete header.

Pass or Block Specifies the action to be taken when packets match the rule.

Block Immediately - Packets matching the rule will be dropped

immediately. Pass Immediately - Packets matching the rule will be passed immediately. Block If No Further Match - A packet matching the rule, and that does not match further rules, will be dropped. Pass If No Further Match - A packet matching the rule, and that does not match further rules, will be passed through.

Branch to other Filter Set

If the packet matches the filter rule, the next filter rule will branch to the specified filter set. Select next filter rule to branch from the drop-down menu. Be aware that the router will apply the specified filter rule for ever and will not return to previous filter rule any more.

Log Check this box to enable the log function. Use the Telnet command

log-f to view the logs.

IP Address Specify a source and destination IP address for this filter rule to

apply to. Place the symbol “!” before a specific IP Address will prevent this rule from being applied to that IP address. To apply the rule to all IP address, enter any or leave the field blank.

Content Management All the hosts within the range configured in the above conditions

must follow the standard configured in the CSM profile selected here. For detailed information, refer to the section of CSM profile setup.

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As stated before, all the traffic will be separated and arbitrated using on of two IP filters: call filter or data filter. You may preset 12 call filters and data filters in Filter Setup and even link them in a serial manner. Each filter set is composed by 7 filter rules, which can be further defined. After that, in General Setup you may specify one set for call filter and one set for data filter to execute first.

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As a sub-functionality of IP Filter/Firewall, there are 15 types of detect/ defense function in the DoS Defense setup. The DoS Defense functionality is disabled for default.

Click Firewall and click DoS Defense to open the setup page.

Enable Dos Defense Check the box to activate the DoS Defense Functionality. Enable SYN flood

defense

Check the box to activate the SYN flood defense function. Once detecting the Threshold of the TCP SYN packets from the Internet has exceeded the defined value, the Vigor router will start to randomly discard the subsequent TCP SYN packets for a period defined in Timeout. The goal for this is prevent the TCP SYN packets’ attempt to exhaust the limited-resource of Vigor router. By default, the threshold and timeout values are set to 50 packets per second and 10 seconds, respectively.

Enable UDP flood defense

Check the box to activate the UDP flood defense function. Once detecting the Threshold of the UDP packets from the Internet has exceeded the defined value, the Vigor router will start to randomly discard the subsequent UDP packets for a period defined in Timeout. The default setting for threshold and timeout are 150 packets per second and 10 seconds, respectively.

Enable ICMP flood defense

Check the box to activate the ICMP flood defense function. Similar to the UDP flood defense function, once if the Threshold of ICMP packets from Internet has exceeded the defined value, the router will discard the ICMP echo requests coming from the Internet. The default setting for threshold and timeout are 50 packets per second and 10 seconds, respectively.

Enable PortScan detection

Port Scan attacks the Vigor router by sending lots of packets to many ports in an attempt to find ignorant services would respond. Check the box to activate the Port Scan detection. Whenever detecting this malicious exploration behavior by monitoring the

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port-scanning Threshold rate, the Vigor router will send out a warning. By default, the Vigor router sets the threshold as 150 packets per second.

Block IP options Check the box to activate the Block IP options function. The Vigor

router will ignore any IP packets with IP option field in the datagram header. The reason for limitation is IP option appears to be a vulnerability of the security for the LAN because it will carry significant information, such as security, TCC (closed user group) parameters, a series of Internet addresses, routing messages...etc. An eavesdropper outside might learn the details of your private networks.

Block Land

Check the box to enforce the Vigor router to defense the Land attacks. The Land attack combines the SYN attack technology with IP spoofing. A Land attack occurs when an attacker sends spoofed SYN packets with the identical source and destination addresses, as well as the port number to victims.

Block Smurf Check the box to activate the Block Smurf function. The Vigor

router will ignore any broadcasting ICMP echo request.

Block trace router Check the box to enforce the Vigor router not to forward any trace

route packets.

Block SYN fragment Check the box to activate the Block SYN fragment function. The

Vigor router will drop any packets having SYN flag and more fragment bit set.

Block Fraggle Attack Check the box to activate the Block fraggle Attack function. Any

broadcast UDP packets received from the Internet is blocked. Activating the DoS/DDoS defense functionality might block some legal packets. For example, when you activate the fraggle attack defense, all broadcast UDP packets coming from the Internet are blocked. Therefore, the RIP packets from the Internet might be dropped.

Block TCP flag scan Check the box to activate the Block TCP flag scan function. Any

TCP packet with anomaly flag setting is dropped. Those scanning activities include no flag scan, FIN without ACK scan, SYN FINscan, Xmas scan and full Xmas scan.

Block Tear Drop Check the box to activate the Block Tear Drop function. Many

Block Ping of Death Check the box to activate the Block Ping of Death function. This

Block ICMP Fragment Check the box to activate the Block ICMP fragment function. Any

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machines may crash when receiving ICMP datagrams (packets) that exceed the maximum length. To avoid this type of attack, the Vigor router is designed to be capable of discarding any fragmented ICMP packets with a length greater than 1024 octets.

attack involves the perpetrator sending overlapping packets to the target hosts so that those target hosts will hang once they re-construct the packets. The Vigor routers will block any packets realizing this attacking activity.

ICMP packets with more fragment bit set are dropped. Check the box to enforce the Vigor router to defense the Land

attacks. The Land attack combines the SYN attack technology with IP spoofing. A Land attack occurs when an attacker sends spoofed

SYN packets with the identical source and destination addresses, as well as the port number to victims.

Block Unknown Protocol

Check the box to activate the Block Unknown Protocol function. Individual IP packet has a protocol field in the datagram header to indicate the protocol type running over the upper layer. However, the protocol types greater than 100 are reserved and undefined at this time. Therefore, the router should have ability to detect and reject this kind of packets.

Warning Messages We provide Syslog function for user to retrieve message from Vigor

router. The user, as a Syslog Server, shall receive the report sending from Vigor router which is a Syslog Client.

All the warning messages related to DoS defense will be sent to user

and user can review it through Syslog daemon. Look for the keyword DoS in the message, followed by a name to indicate what kind of attacks is detected.

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Based on the list of user defined keywords, the URL Content Filter facility in Vigor router inspects the URL string in every outgoing HTTP request. No matter the URL string is found full or partial matched with a keyword, the Vigor router will block the associated HTTP connection.

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For example, if you add key words such as “sex”, Vigor router will limit web access to web sites or web pages such as “www.sex.com”, ”www.backdoor.net/images/sex/p_386.html”. Or you may simply specify the full or partial URL such as “www.sex.com” or “sex.com”.

Also the Vigor router will discard any request that tries to retrieve the malicious code. Click Firewall and click URL Content Filter to open the setup page.

Enable URL Access Control

Black List (block those matching keyword)

White List (pass those matching keyword)

Keyword The Vigor router provides 8 frames for users to define keywords

Prevent web access

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Check the box to activate URL Access Control.

Click this button to restrict accessing into the corresponding webpage with the keywords listed on the box below.

Click this button to allow accessing into the corresponding webpage with the keywords listed on the box below.

and each frame supports multiple keywords. The keyword could be a noun, a partial noun, or a complete URL string. Multiple keywords within a frame are separated by space, comma, or semicolon. In addition, the maximal length of each frame is 32-character long. After specifying keywords, the Vigor router will decline the connection request to the website whose URL string matched to any user-defined keyword. It should be noticed that the more simplified the blocking keyword list, the more efficiently the Vigor router perform.

Check the box to deny any web surfing activity using IP address,

from IP address

such as http://202.6.3.2. The reason for this is to prevent someone dodges the URL Access Control.

You must clear your browser cache first so that the URL content

filtering facility operates properly on a web page that you visited before.

Enable Restrict Web Feature

Check the box to activate the function. Java - Check the checkbox to activate the Block Java object function. The Vigor router will discard the Java objects from the Internet.

ActiveX - Check the box to activate the Block ActiveX object

function. Any ActiveX object from the Internet will be refused. Compressed file - Check the box to activate the Block Compressed file function to prevent someone from downloading any compressed file. The following list shows the types of compressed files that can be blocked by the Vigor router. .

zip, rar, .arj, .ace, .cab, .sit

Executable file - Check the box to reject any downloading behavior of the executable file from the Internet. .exe, .com, .scr, .pif, .bas, .bat, .inf, .reg Cookie - Check the box to filter out the cookie transmission from inside to outside world to protect the local user's privacy. Proxy - Check the box to reject any proxy transmission. To control efficiently the limited-bandwidth usage, it will be of great value to provide the blocking mechanism that filters out the multimedia files downloading from web pages. Accordingly, files with the following extensions will be blocked by the Vigor router.

.mov .mp3 .rm .ra .au .wmv .wav .asf .mpg .mpeg .avi .ram

Enable Excepting Subnets

Four entries are available for users to specify some specific IP addresses or subnets so that they can be free from the URL Access Control. To enable an entry, click on the empty checkbox, named as

ACT, in front of the appropriate entry.

Time Schedule Specify what time should perform the URL content filtering

facility.

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Click Firewall and click Web Content Filter to open the setup page. For this section, please refer to Web Content Filter user’s guide.

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This function is used to bind the IP and MAC address in LAN to have a strengthen control in network. When this function is enabled, all the assigned IP and MAC address binding together cannot be changed. If you modified the binding IP or MAC address, it might cause you not access into the Internet.

Click Firewall and click Bind IP to MAC to open the setup page.

Enable Click this radio button to invoke this function. However, IP/MAC

which is not listed in IP Bind List also can connect to Internet.

Disable Click this radio button to disable this function. All the settings on

this page will be invalid.

Strict Bind Click this radio button to block the connection of the IP/MAC

which is not listed in IP Bind List.

ARP Table This table is the LAN ARP table of this router. The information

for IP and MAC will be displayed in this field. Each pair of IP and MAC address listed in ARP table can be selected and added to IP Bind List by clicking Add below

Add and Edit IP Address – Type the IP address that will be used for the

specified MAC address. Mac Address – Type the MAC address that is used to bind with

the assigned IP address.

Refresh It is used to refresh the ARP table. When there is one new PC

added to the LAN, you can click this link to obtain the newly ARP table information.

IP Bind List It displays a list for the IP bind to MAC information.

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Add It allows you to add the one you choose from the ARP table or the

IP/MAC address typed in Add and Edit to the table of IP Bind

List.

Edit It allows you to edit and modify the selected IP address and MAC

address that you create before.

Remove You can remove any item listed in IP Bind List. Simply click and

select the one, and click Remove. The selected item will be removed from the IP Bind List.

Note: Before you select Strict Bind, you have to bind one set of IP/MAC address for one PC. If not, no one of the PCs can access into Internet. And the web configurator of the router might not be accessed.

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For IPs in a range and service ports in a limited range usually will be applied in configuring router’s settings, therefore we can define them with objects and bind them with groups for using conveniently. Later, we can select that object/group that can apply it. For example, all the IPs in the same department can be defined with an IP object (a range of IP address).

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You can set up to 192 sets of IP Objects with different conditions.

Set to Factory Default Clear all profiles. Click the number under Index column for settings in detail.

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Name Type a name for this profile. Maximum 15 characters are

allowed.

Interface Choose a proper interface (WAN, LAN or Any).

For example, the Direction setting in Edit Filter Rule will ask you specify IP or IP range for WAN or LAN or any IP address. If you choose LAN as the Interface here, and choose LAN as the direction setting in Edit Filter Rule, then all the IP addresses specified with LAN interface will be opened for you to choose in Edit Filter Rule page.

Address Type Determine the address type for the IP address.

Select Single Address if this object contains one IP address only. Select Range Address if this object contains several IPs within a range. Select Subnet Address if this object contains one subnet for IP address. Select Any Address if this object contains any IP address.

Start IP Address Type the start IP address for Single Address type. End IP Address Type the end IP address if the Range Address type is selected. Subnet Mask Type the subnet mask if the Subnet Address type is selected. Invert Select If it is checked, all the IP addresses except the ones listed

above will be applied later while it is chosen.

Below is an example of IP objects settings.

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This page allows you to bind several IP objects into one IP group.

Set to Factory Default Clear all profiles. Click the number under Index column for settings in detail.

Name Type a name for this profile. Maximum 15 characters are

Interface Choose WAN, LAN or Any to display all the available IP

Available IP Objects All the available IP objects with the specified interface chosen

Selected IP Objects Click >> button to add the selected IP objects in this box.

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allowed.

objects with the specified interface.

above will be shown in this box.

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You can set up to 96 sets of Service Type Objects with different conditions.

Set to Factory Default Clear all profiles.

Click the number under Index column for settings in detail.

Name Type a name for this profile. Protocol Specify the protocol(s) which this profile will apply to.

Source/Destination Port Source Port and the Destination Port column are available

for TCP/UDP protocol. It can be ignored for other protocols. The filter rule will filter out any port number. (=) – when the first and last value are the same, it indicates one port; when the first and last values are different, it indicates a range for the port and available for this profile.

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(!=) – when the first and last value are the same, it indicates

all the ports except the port defined here; when the first and last values are different, it indicates that all the ports

except the range defined here are available for this service type.

(>) – the port number greater than this value is available. (<) – the port number less than this value is available for this

profile.

Below is an example of service type objects settings.

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This page allows you to bind several service types into one group.

Set to Factory Default Clear all profiles.

Click the number under Index column for settings in detail.

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Name Type a name for this profile. Available Service Type

Objects Selected Service Type

Objects

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You can define policy profiles for different policy of IM (Instant Messenger)/P2P (Peer to Peer) application. CSM profile can be used in Filter Setup page.

You can add IP objects from IP Objects page. All the available IP objects will be shown in this box.

Click >> button to add the selected IP objects in this box.

Set to Factory Default Clear all profiles.

Click the number under Index column for settings in detail.

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Profile Name Type a name for the CSM profile. There are several items for IM, VoIP, P2P provided here for you to choose to disallow

people using. Simple check the box (es) and then click OK. Later, in the Firewall>>Edit Filter Set>>Edit Filter Rule page, you can use Content Management drop down list to choose the proper CSM profile as the standard for the host(s) to follow.

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Below shows the menu items for Bandwidth Management.

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A PC with private IP address can access to the Internet via NAT router. The router will generate the records of NAT sessions for such connection. The P2P (Peer to Peer) applications (e.g., BitTorrent) always need many sessions for procession and also they will occupy over resources which might result in important accesses impacted. To solve the problem, you can use limit session to limit the session procession for specified Hosts.

In the Bandwidth Management menu, click Limit Session to open the web page.

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To activate the function of limit session, simply click Enable and set the default session limit.

Enable Click this button to activate the function of limit session. Disable Click this button to close the function of limit session. Default session limit Defines the default session number used for each computer in

LAN.

Limitation List Displays a list of specific limitations that you set on this web

page.

Start IP Defines the start IP address for limit session. End IP Defines the end IP address for limit session. Session Number Defines the available session number for specific range of IP

addresses. If you do not set the session number in this field, the system will use the default session limit for the specific limitation you set for each index.

Add Adds the specific session limitation onto the list above. Edit Allows you to edit the settings for the selected limitation. Remove Remove the selected settings existing on the limitation list. Index (1-15) in Schedule

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The downstream or upstream from FTP, HTTP or some P2P applications will occupy large of bandwidth and affect the applications for other programs. Please use Limit Bandwidth to make the bandwidth usage more efficient.

You can type in four sets of time schedule for your request. All the schedules can be set previously in Application – Schedule web page and you can use the number that you have set in that web page.

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In the Bandwidth Management menu, click Limit Bandwidth to open the web page.

To activate the function of limit bandwidth, simply click Enable and set the default upstream and downstream limit.

Enable Click this button to activate the function of limit bandwidth. Disable Click this button to close the function of limit bandwidth. Default TX limit Define the default speed of the upstream for each computer in

LAN.

Default RX limit Define the default speed of the downstream for each computer

in LAN.

Limitation List Display a list of specific limitations that you set on this web

page.

Start IP Define the start IP address for limit bandwidth. End IP Define the end IP address for limit bandwidth. TX limit Define the limitation for the speed of the upstream. If you do

not set the limit in this field, the system will use the default speed for the specific limitation you set for each index.

RX limit Define the limitation for the speed of the downstream. If you

do not set the limit in this field, the system will use the default speed for the specific limitation you set for each index.

Add Add the specific speed limitation onto the list above. Edit Allows you to edit the settings for the selected limitation. Remove Remove the selected settings existing on the limitation list. Index (1-15) in Schedule

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You can type in four sets of time schedule for your request. All the schedules can be set previously in Application – Schedule web page and you can use the number that you have

set in that web page.

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Deploying QoS (Quality of Service) management to guarantee that all applications receive the service levels required and sufficient bandwidth to meet performance expectations is indeed one important aspect of modern enterprise network.

One reason for QoS is that numerous TCP-based applications tend to continually increase their transmission rate and consume all available bandwidth, which is called TCP slow start. If other applications are not protected by QoS, it will detract much from their performance in the overcrowded network. This is especially essential to those are low tolerant of loss, delay or jitter (delay variation).

Another reason is due to congestions at network intersections where speeds of interconnected circuits mismatch or traffic aggregates, packets will queue up and traffic can be throttled back to a lower speed. If there’s no defined priority to specify which packets should be discarded (or in another term “dropped”) from an overflowing queue, packets of sensitive applications mentioned above might be the ones to drop off. How this will affect application performance?

There are two components within Primary configuration of QoS deployment: z Classification: Identifying low-latency or crucial applications and marking them for

high-priority service level enforcement throughout the network.

z Scheduling: Based on classification of service level to assign packets to queues and

associated service types

The basic QoS implementation in Vigor routers is to classify and schedule packets based on the service type information in the IP header. For instance, to ensure the connection with the headquarter, a teleworker may enforce an index of QoS Control to reserve bandwidth for HTTPS connection while using lots of application at the same time.

One more larger-scale implementation of QoS network is to apply DSCP (Differentiated Service Code Point) and IP Precedence disciplines at Layer 3. Compared with legacy IP Precedence that uses Type of Service (ToS) field in the IP header to define 8 service classes, DSCP is a successor creating 64 classes possible with backward IP Precedence compatibility. In a QoS-enabled network, or Differentiated Service (DiffServ or DS) framework, a DS domain owner should sign a Service License Agreement (SLA) with other DS domain owners to define the service level provided toward traffic from different domains. Then each DS node in these domains will perform the priority treatment. This is called per-hop-behavior (PHB). The definition of PHB includes Expedited Forwarding (EF), Assured Forwarding (AF), and Best Effort (BE). AF defines the four classes of delivery (or forwarding) classes and three levels of drop precedence in each class.

Vigor routers as edge routers of DS domain shall check the marked DSCP value in the IP header of bypassing traffic, thus to allocate certain amount of resource execute appropriate policing, classification or scheduling. The core routers in the backbone will do the same checking before executing treatments in order to ensure service-level consistency throughout the whole QoS-enabled network.

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However, each node may take different attitude toward packets with high priority marking since it may bind with the business deal of SLA among different DS domain owners. It’s not easy to achieve deterministic and consistent high-priority QoS traffic throughout the whole network with merely Vigor router’s effort.

In the Bandwidth Management menu, click Quality of Service to open the web page.

This page displays the QoS settings result of the WAN interface. Click the Setup link to access into next page for the general setup of WAN (1/2) interface. As to class rule, simply click the Edit link to access into next for configuration.

You can configure general setup for the WAN interface, edit the Class Rule, and edit the Service Type for the Class Rule for your request.

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When you click Setup, you can configure the bandwidth ratio for QoS of the WAN interface. There are four queues allowed for QoS control. The first three (Class 1 to Class 3) class rules can be adjusted for your necessity. Yet, the last one is reseverd for the packets which are not suitable for the user-defined class rules.

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Enable the QoS Control The factory default for this setting is checked.

Please also define which traffic the QoS Control settings will apply to.

IN- apply to incoming traffic only. OUT-apply to outgoing traffic only. BOTH- apply to both incoming and outgoing traffic.

Check this box and click OK, then click Setup link again. You will see the Online Statistics link appearing on this page.

WAN Inbound Bandwidth It allows you to set the connecting rate of data input for WAN.

For example, if your ADSL supports 1M of downstream and 256K upstream, please set 10000kbps for this box. The default value is 10000kbps.

WAN Outbound Bandwidth It allows you to set the connecting rate of data output for

WAN. For example, if your ADSL supports 1M of downstream and 256K upstream, please set 256kbps for this box. The default value is 10000kbps.

Reserved Bandwidth Ratio It is reserved for the group index in the form of ratio of

reserved bandwidth to upstream speed and reserved bandwidth to downstream speed.

Enable UDP Bandwidth Control

Check this and set the limited bandwidth ratio on the right field. This is a protection of TCP application traffic since UDP application traffic such as streaming video will exhaust lots of bandwidth.

Limited_bandwidth Ratio The ratio typed here is reserved for limited bandwidth of UDP

application.

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On Line Statistics Display an online statistics for quality of service for your

reference.

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The first three (Class 1 to Class 3) class rules can be adjusted for your necessity. To add, edit or delete the class rule, please click the Edit link of that one.

After you click the Edit link, you will see the following page. Now you can define the name for that Class. In this case, “Test” is used as the name of Class Index #1.

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For adding a new rule, click Add to open the following page.

ACT Check this box to invoke these settings. Source Address Click the SrcEdit button to set the source address for the rule. Destination Address Click the DestEdit button to set the destination address for the

rule.

SrcEdit/DestEdit It allows you to edit source address information.

Address Type – Determine the address type for the source

address. For Single Address, you have to fill in Start IP address. For Range Address, you have to fill in Start IP address and End IP address. For Subnet Address, you have to fill in Start IP address and Subnet Mask.

DiffServ CodePoint All the packets of data will be divided with different levels

and will be processed according to the level type by the system. Please assign one of the level of the data for processing with QoS control.

Service Type It determines the service type of the data for processing with

QoS control. It can also be edited. You can choose the predefined service type from the Service Type drop down list. Those types are predefined in factory. Simply choose the one that you want for using by current QoS.

By the way, you can set up to 20 rules for one Class. If you want to edit an existed rule, please select the radio button of that one and click Edit to open the rule edit page for modification.

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To add a new service type, edit or delete an existed service type, please click the Edit link under Service Type field.

After you click the Edit link, you will see the following page.

For adding a new rule, click Add to open the following page. If you want to edit an existed service type, please select the radio button of that one and click Edit to open the following page for modification.

Service Name Type in a new service for your request. Service Type Choose the type (TCP, UDP or TCP/UDP) for the new

service.

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Port Configuration Click Single or Range. If you select Range, you have to type

in the starting port number and the end porting number on the boxes below. Port Number – Type in the starting port number and the end porting number here if you choose Range as the type.

By the way, you can set up to 40 service types. If you want to edit/delete an existed service type, please select the radio button of that one and click Edit/Edit for modification.

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Below shows the menu items for Applications.

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The ISP often provides you with a dynamic IP address when you connect to the Internet via your ISP. It means that the public IP address assigned to your router changes each time you access the Internet. The Dynamic DNS feature lets you assign a domain name to a dynamic WAN IP address. It allows the router to update its online WAN IP address mappings on the specified Dynamic DNS server. Once the router is online, you will be able to use the registered domain name to access the router or internal virtual servers from the Internet. It is particularly helpful if you host a web server, FTP server, or other server behind the router.

Before you use the Dynamic DNS feature, you have to apply for free DDNS service to the DDNS service providers. The router provides up to three accounts from three different DDNS service providers. Basically, Vigor routers are compatible with the DDNS services supplied by most popular DDNS service providers such as www.dyndns.org,

www.no-ip.com, www.dtdns.com, www.changeip.com, www.dynamic- nameserver.com.

You should visit their websites to register your own domain name for the router.

Enable the Function and Add a Dynamic DNS Account

1. Assume you have a registered domain name from the DDNS provider, say

hostname.dyndns.org, and an account with username: test and password: test.

2. In the DDNS setup menu, check Enable Dynamic DNS Setup.

Set to Factory Default Clear all profiles and recover to factory settings. Enable Dynamic DNS Setup Check this box to enable DDNS function. Index Click the number below Index to access into the setting

page of DDNS setup to set account(s).

WAN Interface Display current WAN interface used for accessing

Internet.

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Domain Name Display the domain name that you set on the setting page

of DDNS setup.

Active Display if this account is active or inactive. View Log Display DDNS log status. Force Update Force the router updates its information to DDNS server.

3. Select Index number 1 to add an account for the router. Check Enable Dynamic DNS

Account, and choose correct Service Provider: dyndns.org, type the registered hostname: hostname and domain name suffix: dyndns.org in the Domain Name block. The following two blocks should be typed your account Login Name: test and Password: test.

Enable Dynamic DNS Account

Check this box to enable the current account. If you did check the box, you will see a check mark appeared on the Active column of the previous web page in step 2).

WAN Interface Select the WAN interface order to apply settings here. Service Provider Select the service provider for the DDNS account. Service Type Select a service type (Dynamic, Custom, Static). If you choose

Custom, you can modify the domain that is choosen in the Domain Name field.

Domain Name Type in a domain name that you applied previously. Use the

drop down list to choose the desired domain.

Login Name Type in the login name that you set for applying domain. Password Type in the password that you set for applying domain.

4. Click OK button to activate the settings. You will see your setting has been saved.

The Wildcard and Backup MX features are not supported for all Dynamic DNS providers. You could get more detailed information from their websites.

Disable the Function and Clear all Dynamic DNS Accounts

In the DDNS setup menu, uncheck Enable Dynamic DNS Setup, and push Clear All button to disable the function and clear all accounts from the router.

Delete a Dynamic DNS Account

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In the DDNS setup menu, click the Index number you want to delete and then push Clear All button to delete the account.

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The Vigor router has a built-in real time clock which can update itself manually or automatically by means of Network Time Protocols (NTP). As a result, you can not only schedule the router to dialup to the Internet at a specified time, but also restrict Internet access to certain hours so that users can connect to the Internet only during certain hours, say, business hours. The schedule is also applicable to other functions.

You have to set your time before set schedule. In System Maintenance>> Time and Date menu, press Inquire Time button to set the Vigor router’s clock to current time of your PC. The clock will reset once if you power down or reset the router. There is another way to set up time. You can inquiry an NTP server (a time server) on the Internet to synchronize the router’s clock. This method can only be applied when the WAN connection has been built up.

Set to Factory Default Clear all profiles and recover to factory settings. Index Click the number below Index to access into the setting page

of schedule.

Status Display if this schedule setting is active or inactive. You can set up to 15 schedules. Then you can apply them to your Internet Access or VPN

and Remote Access >> LAN-to-LAN settings. To add a schedule, please click any index, say Index No. 1. The detailed settings of the call

schedule with index 1 are shown below.

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Enable Schedule Setup Check to enable the schedule. Start Date (yyyy-mm-dd) Specify the starting date of the schedule. Start Time (hh:mm) Specify the starting time of the schedule. Duration Time (hh:mm) Specify the duration (or period) for the schedule. Action Specify which action Call Schedule should apply during the

period of the schedule.

Force On -Force the connection to be always on. Force Down -Force the connection to be always down. Enable Dial-On-Demand -Specify the connection to be

dial-on-demand and the value of idle timeout should be specified in Idle Timeout field. Disable Dial-On-Demand -Specify the connection to be up when it has traffic on the line. Once there is no traffic over idle timeout, the connection will be down and never up again during the schedule.

Idle Timeout Specify the duration (or period) for the schedule.

How often -Specify how often the schedule will be applied Once -The schedule will be applied just once Weekdays -Specify which days in one week should perform

the schedule.

Example

Suppose you want to control the PPPoE Internet access connection to be always on (Force On) from 9:00 to 18:00 for whole week. Other time the Internet access connection should be disconnected (Force Down).

Office Hour:

(Force On)

Mon - Sun 9:00 am to 6:00 pm

1. Make sure the PPPoE connection and Time Setup is working properly.

2. Configure the PPPoE always on from 9:00 to 18:00 for whole week.

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3. Configure the Force Down from 18:00 to next day 9:00 for whole week.

4. Assign these two profiles to the PPPoE Internet access profile. Now, the PPPoE

Internet connection will follow the schedule order to perform Force On or Force Down action according to the time plan that has been pre-defined in the schedule profiles.

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Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) is a security authentication client/server protocol that supports authentication, authorization and accounting, which is widely used by Internet service providers. It is the most common method of authenticating and authorizing dial-up and tunneled network users.

The built-in RADIUS client feature enables the router to assist the remote dial-in user or a wireless station and the RADIUS server in performing mutual authentication. It enables centralized remote access authentication for network management.

Enable Check to enable RADIUS client feature Server IP Address Enter the IP address of RADIUS server Destination Port The UDP port number that the RADIUS server is using. The

default value is 1812 , based on RFC 2138.

Shared Secret The RADIUS server and client share a secret that is used to

authenticate the messages sent between them. Both sides must be configured to use the same shared secret.

Re-type Shared Secret Re-type the Shared Secret for confirmation.

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The UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) protocol is supported to bring to network connected devices the ease of installation and configuration which is already available for directly connected PC peripherals with the existing Windows 'Plug and Play' system. For NAT routers, the major feature of UPnP on the router is “NAT Traversal”. This enables applications inside the firewall to automatically open the ports that they need to pass through a router. It is more reliable than requiring a router to work out by itself which ports need to be opened. Further, the user does not have to manually set up port mappings or a DMZ. UPnP is available on Windows XP and the router provides the associated support for MSN Messenger to allow full use of the voice, video and messaging features.

Enable UPNP Service Accordingly, you can enable either the Connection Control

Service or Connection Status Service.

After setting Enable UPNP Service setting, an icon of IP Broadband Connection on Router on Windows XP/Network Connections will appear. The connection status and

control status will be able to be activated. The NAT Traversal of UPnP enables the multimedia features of your applications to operate. This has to manually set up port mappings or use other similar methods. The screenshots below show examples of this facility.

The UPnP facility on the router enables UPnP aware applications such as MSN Messenger to discover what are behind a NAT router. The application will also learn the external IP address and configure port mappings on the router. Subsequently, such a facility forwards packets from the external ports of the router to the internal ports used by the application.

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The reminder as regards concern about Firewall and UPnP

Can't work with Firewall Software

Enabling firewall applications on your PC may cause the UPnP function not working properly. This is because these applications will block the accessing ability of some network ports.

Security Considerations

Activating the UPnP function on your network may incur some security threats. You should consider carefully these risks before activating the UPnP function.

¾ Some Microsoft operating systems have found out the UPnP weaknesses and

hence you need to ensure that you have applied the latest service packs and patches.

¾ Non-privileged users can control some router functions, including removing

and adding port mappings.

The UPnP function dynamically adds port mappings on behalf of some UPnP-aware applications. When the applications terminate abnormally, these mappings may not be removed.

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A PC client on LAN can be woken up by the router it connects. When a user wants to wake up a specified PC through the router, he/she must type correct MAC address of the specified PC on this web page of Wake On LAN of this router.

In addition, such PC must have installed a network card supporting WOL function. By the way, WOL function must be set as “Enable” on the BIOS setting.

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Wake by Two types provide for you to wake up the binded IP. If you

choose Wake by MAC Address, you have to type the correct MAC address of the host in MAC Address boxes. If you choose Wake by IP Address, you have to choose the correct IP address.

IP Address The IP addresses that have been configured in

Firewall>>Bind IP to MAC will be shown in this drop down

list. Choose the IP address from the drop down list that you want to wake up.

MAC Address Type any one of the MAC address of the binded PCs. Wake Up Click this button to wake up the selected IP. See the following

figure. The result will be shown on the box.

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A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is the extension of a private network that encompasses links across shared or public networks like the Internet. In short, by VPN technology, you can send data between two computers across a shared or public network in a manner that emulates the properties of a point-to-point private link.

Below shows the menu items for VPN and Remote Access.

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Enable the necessary VPN service as you need. If you intend to run a VPN server inside your LAN, you should disable the VPN service of Vigor Router to allow VPN tunnel pass through, as well as the appropriate NAT settings, such as DMZ or open port.

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This submenu only applies to PPP-related VPN connections, such as PPTP, L2TP, L2TP over IPSec.

Dial-In PPP

Select this option to force the router to authenticate dial-in

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Authentication PAP Only PAP or CHAP

Dial-In PPP Encryption (MPPE Optional MPPE

users with the PAP protocol. Selecting this option means the router will attempt to

authenticate dial-in users with the CHAP protocol first. If the dial-in user does not support this protocol, it will fall back to use the PAP protocol for authentication.

This option represents that the MPPE encryption method will be optionally employed in the router for the remote dial-in user. If the remote dial-in user does not support the MPPE encryption algorithm, the router will transmit “no MPPE encrypted packets”. Otherwise, the MPPE encryption scheme will be used to encrypt the data.

Require MPPE (40/128bits) - Selecting this option will force the router to encrypt packets by using the MPPE encryption algorithm. In addition, the remote dial-in user will use 40-bit to perform encryption prior to using 128-bit for encryption. In other words, if 128-bit MPPE encryption method is not available, then 40-bit encryption scheme will be applied to encrypt the data. Maximum MPPE - This option indicates that the router will use the MPPE encryption scheme with maximum bits (128-bit) to encrypt the data.

Mutual Authentication (PAP)

Start IP Address Enter a start IP address for the dial-in PPP connection. You

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In IPSec General Setup, there are two major parts of configuration. There are two phases of IPSec. ¾ Phase 1: negotiation of IKE parameters including encryption, hash, Diffie-Hellman

parameter values, and lifetime to protect the following IKE exchange, authentication of both peers using either a Pre-Shared Key or Digital Signature (x.509). The peer that starts the negotiation proposes all its policies to the remote peer and then remote peer tries to find a highest-priority match with its policies. Eventually to set up a secure tunnel for IKE Phase 2.

The Mutual Authentication function is mainly used to communicate with other routers or clients who need bi-directional authentication in order to provide stronger security, for example, Cisco routers. So you should enable this function when your peer router requires mutual authentication. You should further specify the User Name and Password of the mutual authentication peer.

should choose an IP address from the local private network. For example, if the local private network is

192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0, you could choose 192.168.1.200 as the Start IP Address. But, you have to notice that the first two IP addresses of 192.168.1.200 and 192.168.1.201 are reserved for ISDN remote dial-in user.

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¾ Phase 2: negotiation IPSec security methods including Authentication Header (AH) or

Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) for the following IKE exchange and mutual examination of the secure tunnel establishment.

There are two encapsulation methods used in IPSec, Transport and Tunnel. The Transport mode will add the AH/ESP payload and use original IP header to encapsulate the data payload only. It can just apply to local packet, e.g., L2TP over IPSec. The Tunnel mode will not only add the AH/ESP payload but also use a new IP header (Tunneled IP header) to encapsulate the whole original IP packet.

Authentication Header (AH) provides data authentication and integrity for IP packets passed between VPN peers. This is achieved by a keyed one-way hash function to the packet to create a message digest. This digest will be put in the AH and transmitted along with packets. On the receiving side, the peer will perform the same one-way hash on the packet and compare the value with the one in the AH it receives.

Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) is a security protocol that provides data confidentiality and protection with optional authentication and replay detection service.

IKE Authentication Method This usually applies to those are remote dial-in user or node

IPSec Security Method Medium - Authentication Header (AH) means data will be

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To use digital certificate for peer authentication in either LAN-to-LAN connection or Remote User Dial-In connection, here you may edit a table of peer certificate for selection. As shown below, the router provides 32 entries of digital certificates for peer dial-in users.

(LAN-to-LAN) which uses dynamic IP address and IPSec-related VPN connections such as L2TP over IPSec and IPSec tunnel. Pre-Shared Key -Currently only support Pre-Shared Key authentication.

Pre-Shared Key- Specify a key for IKE authentication Re-type Pre-Shared Key-Confirm the pre-shared key.

authenticated, but not be encrypted. By default, this option is active. High - Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) means payload (data) will be encrypted and authenticated. You may select encryption algorithm from Data Encryption Standard (DES), Triple DES (3DES), and AES.

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Set to Factory Default Click it to clear all indexes. Index Click the number below Index to access into the setting page

of IPSec Peer Identity.

Name Display the profile name of that index. Click each index to edit one peer digital certificate. There are three security levels of digital

signature authentication: Fill each necessary field to authenticate the remote peer. The following explanation will guide you to fill all the necessary fields.

Profile Name Type in a name in this file. Accept Any Peer ID Click to accept any peer regardless of its identity.

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Accept Subject Alternative Name

Click to check one specific field of digital signature to accept the peer with matching value. The field can be IP Address, Domain, or E-mail Address. The box under the Type will appear according to the type you select and ask you to fill in corresponding setting.

Accept Subject Name Click to check the specific fields of digital signature to accept

the peer with matching value. The field includes Country (C),

State (ST), Location (L), Organization (O), Organization Unit (OU), Common Name (CN), and Email (E).

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You can manage remote access by maintaining a table of remote user profile, so that users can be authenticated to dial-in or build the VPN connection. You may set parameters including specified connection peer ID, connection type (VPN including PPTP, IPSec Tunnel, and L2TP by itself or over IPSec) and corresponding security methods, etc.

The router provides 32 access accounts for dial-in users. Besides, you can extend the user accounts to the RADIUS server through the built-in RADIUS client function. The following figure shows the summary table.

Set to Factory Default Click to clear all indexes. Index Click the number below Index to access into the setting page

of Remote Dial-in User.

User Display the username for the specific dial-in user of the

LAN-to-LAN profile. The symbol ??? represents that the profile is empty.

Status Display the access state of the specific dial-in user. The

symbol V and X represent the specific dial-in user to be active and inactive, respectively.

Click each index to edit one remote user profile. Each Dial-In Type requires you to fill the different corresponding fields on the right. If the fields gray out, it means you may leave it untouched. The following explanation will guide you to fill all the necessary fields.

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Enable this account Check the box to enable this function.

Idle Timeout- If the dial-in user is idle over the limitation of

the timer, the router will drop this connection. By default, the Idle Timeout is set to 300 seconds.

ISDN Allow the remote ISDN dial-in connection. You can further

set up Callback function below. You should set the User Name and Password of remote dial-in user below. This feature is for i model only.

PPTP Allow the remote dial-in user to make a PPTP VPN

connection through the Internet. You should set the User Name and Password of remote dial-in user below

IPSec Tunnel Allow the remote dial-in user to make an IPSec VPN

connection through Internet.

L2TP Allow the remote dial-in user to make a L2TP VPN

connection through the Internet. You can select to use L2TP alone or with IPSec. Select from below: None - Do not apply the IPSec policy. Accordingly, the VPN connection employed the L2TP without IPSec policy can be viewed as one pure L2TP connection. Nice to Have - Apply the IPSec policy first, if it is applicable during negotiation. Otherwise, the dial-in VPN connection becomes one pure L2TP connection. Must -Specify the IPSec policy to be definitely applied on the L2TP connection.

Specify Remote Node Check the checkbox-You can specify the IP address of the

remote dial-in user, ISDN number or peer ID (used in IKE aggressive mode). Uncheck the checkbox-This means the connection type you

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select above will apply the authentication methods and security methods in the general settings.

User Name This field is applicable when you select ISDN, PPTP or L2TP

with or without IPSec policy above.

Password This field is applicable when you select ISDN, PPTP or L2TP

with or without IPSec policy above.

IKE Authentication Method This group of fields is applicable for IPSec Tunnels and L2TP

with IPSec Policy when you specify the IP address of the remote node. The only exception is Digital Signature (X.509) can be set when you select IPSec tunnel either with or without specify the IP address of the remote node. Pre-Shared Key - Check the box of Pre-Shared Key to invoke this function and type in the required characters (1-63) as the pre-shared key. Digital Signature (X.509) – Check the box of Digital Signature to invoke this function and select one predefined in the X.509 Peer ID Profiles.

IPSec Security Method This group of fields is a must for IPSec Tunnels and L2TP

with IPSec Policy when you specify the remote node. Check the Medium, DES, 3DES or AES box as the security method. Medium -Authentication Header (AH) means data will be authenticated, but not be encrypted. By default, this option is invoked. You can uncheck it to disable it. High-Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) means payload (data) will be encrypted and authenticated. You may select encryption algorithm from Data Encryption Standard (DES), Triple DES (3DES), and AES. Local ID - Specify a local ID to be used for Dial-in setting in the LAN-to-LAN Profile setup. This item is optional and can be used only in IKE aggressive mode.

Callback Function The callback function provides a callback service only for the

ISDN dial-in user (for i model only). The remote user will be charged the connection fee by the telecom. Check to enable Callback function-Enables the callback function. Specify the callback number-The option is for extra security. Once enabled, the router will ONLY call back to the specified Callback Number. Check to enable callback budget control-By default, the callback function has a time restriction. Once the callback budget has been exhausted, the callback mechanism will be disabled automatically. Callback Budget (Unit: minutes)- Specify the time budget for the dial-in user. The budget will be decreased automatically per callback connection.

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Here you can manage LAN-to-LAN connections by maintaining a table of connection profiles. You may set parameters including specified connection direction (dial-in or dial-out), connection peer ID, connection type (VPN including PPTP, IPSec Tunnel, and L2TP by itself or over IPSec) and corresponding security methods, etc.

The router provides up to 32 profiles, which also means supporting 32 VPN tunnels simultaneously. The following figure shows the summary table.

Set to Factory Default Name

Click to clear all indexes. Indicate the name of the LAN-to-LAN profile. The

symbol ??? represents that the profile is empty.

Status

Indicate the status of individual profiles. The symbol V and X represent the profile to be active and inactive, respectively.

Click each index to edit each profile and you will get the following page. Each LAN-to-LAN profile includes 4 subgroups. If the fields gray out, it means you may leave it untouched. The following explanations will guide you to fill all the necessary fields.

For the web page is too long, we divide the page into several sections for explanation.

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