User manual DRAYTEK VIGOR 2950 V4.1

[. . . ] ii Vigor2950 Series User's Guide Vigor2950 Series Dual-WAN SSL VPN Appliance User's Guide Version: 4. 1 Date: 30/10/2009 Copyright 2009 All rights reserved. No part may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language without written permission from the copyright holders. The scope of delivery and other details are subject to change without prior notice. Windows, Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP, Vista and Explorer are trademarks of Microsoft Corp. [. . . ] This has to manually set up port mappings or use other similar methods. The screenshots below show examples of this facility. 92 Vigor2950 Series User's Guide 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. 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. 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. 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. 3. 8. 5 Wake on LAN 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. Vigor2950 Series User's Guide 93 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. The result will be shown on the box. MAC Address Wake Up 94 Vigor2950 Series User's Guide 3. 9 VPN and Remote Access 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. Besides, here provides ISDN LAN to LAN and remote dial-in functions (for i model only). Below shows the menu items for VPN and Remote Access. Note: This feature can be applied for ISDN remote dial-in or ISDN LAN-to-LAN connection in i series models. 3. 9. 1 VPN Client Wizard Such wizard is used to configure VPN settings for VPN client. Such wizard will guide to set the LAN-to-LAN profile for VPN dial out connection (from server to client) step by step. LAN-to-LAN Client Mode Choose the client mode. [. . . ] Make sure the ACT LED blink once per second and the correspondent LAN LED is bright. 3. If not, it means that there is something wrong with the hardware status. Simply back to "1. 3 Hardware Installation" to execute the hardware installation again. And then, try again. 5. 2 Checking If the Network Connection Settings on Your Computer Is OK or Not Sometimes the link failure occurs due to the wrong network connection settings. After trying the above section, if the link is stilled failed, please do the steps listed below to make sure the network connection settings is OK. Vigor2950 Series User's Guide 229 For Windows The example is based on Windows XP. [. . . ]