Vigor2900 Series User’s Guide

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Targeting requirement for residential, SOHO (Small Office and Home Office) and business

users, the Vigor2900 series provides exceptional bandwidth for Internet access.

To secure your network, the Vigor2900 series provides an advanced firewall with advanced

features, such as NAT with multi VPN pass-through, Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) to offer

network reliability by detecting and prohibiting malicious penetrating packets,

user-configurable web filtering for parental control against network abuse etc.

Vigor2900 series is embedded with an 802.11g compliant wireless module which provides

wireless LAN access with data rate as much as (up to 54Mbps for Vigor2900G/VG/VGi only).

As for data privacy of wireless network, the Vigor2900 series can encode all transmissions

data with standard WEP and industrial strength WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i) encryption. Additional

features include Wireless Client List and MAC Address Control for maintaining control over

user’s authorization in your network, and Hidden SSID for being invisible to outside intruders

scanning.

1.1 LED Indicators and Connectors

The displays of LED indicators and connectors for the routers are different slightly.

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1.1.1 Front and Rear View for Vigor2900

ACT

DMZ

QoS

Attack VPN Printer

WAN

P1

P2

P3

P4

LAN

LED

Status

Explanation

ACT (Activity)

Blinking

The router is powered on and running properly.

DMZ

On

DMZ Host is specified in certain site.

QoS

On

The QoS function is active.

On

DoS Defense function is active.

Attack

Blinking

An attack is detected.

VPN

On

The VPN tunnel is launched.

Printer

On

The USB interface printer is ready.

Orange

A normal 10Mbps WAN link is ready.

Green

A normal 100Mbps WAN link is ready.

WAN

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.

LAN (1, 2, 3, 4)

Blinking

Ethernet packets are transmitting.

Factory

Reset

WAN

P1

P2

P3

P4

PWR

Printer

Interface

Description

Printer

Connecter for a USB printer.

PWR

Connecter for a power adapter.

0/1

Power Switch.

P1 – P4

Connecter for local networked devices.

WAN

Connecter for remote networked devices.

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.

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1.1.2 Front and Rear View for Vigor2900G

ACT

QoS

WLAN Attack VPN Printer

WAN

P1

P2

P3

P4

LAN

LED

Status

Explanation

ACT (Activity)

Blinking

The router is powered on and running properly.

QoS

On

The QoS function is active.

On

The wireless LAN function is enabled.

WLAN

Blinking

Ethernet packets are transmitting over wireless LAN.

On

DoS Defense function is active.

Attack

Blinking

An attack is detected.

VPN

On

The VPN tunnel is launched.

Printer

On

The USB interface printer is ready.

Orange

A normal 10Mbps WAN link is ready.

Green

A normal 100Mbps WAN link is ready.

WAN

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.

LAN (1, 2, 3, 4)

Blinking

Ethernet packets are transmitting.

Factory

Reset

WAN

P1

P2

P3

P4

PWR

Printer

Interface

Description

Printer

Connecter for a USB printer.

PWR

Connecter for a power adapter.

0/1

Power Switch.

P1 – P4

Connecter for local networked devices.

WAN

Connecter for remote networked devices.

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.

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1.1.3 Front and Rear View for Vigor2900Gi

ACT

ISDN

WLAN Attack VPN Printer

WAN

P1

P2

P3

P4

LAN

LED

Status

Explanation

ACT (Activity)

Blinking

The router is powered on and running properly.

On

The ISDN network is correctly setup.

ISDN

Blinking

A successful remote connection on the ISDN BRI

B1/B2 channel.

On

The wireless LAN function is enabled.

WLAN

Blinking

Ethernet packets are transmitting over wireless LAN.

On

DoS Defense function is active.

Attack

Blinking

An attack is detected.

VPN

On

The VPN tunnel is launched.

Printer

On

The USB interface printer is ready.

Orange

A normal 10Mbps WAN link is ready.

Green

A normal 100Mbps WAN link is ready.

WAN

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.

LAN (1, 2, 3, 4)

Blinking

Ethernet packets are transmitting.

Factory

Reset

WAN

P1

P2

P3

P4

PWR

Printer

ISDN

Interface

Description

Printer

Connecter for a USB printer.

PWR

Connecter for a power adapter.

0/1

Power Switch.

P1 – P4

Connecter for local networked devices.

WAN

Connecter for remote networked devices.

ISDN

Connecter for NT1 (or NT1+) box provided by ISDN service provider.

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.