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Active

Display if this account is active or inactive.

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).

Service Provider

Select the service provider for the DDNS account.

Service Type

Select a service type (Dynamic, Custom, Static).

Domain Name

Type in a domain name that you applied previously.

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

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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3.6.2 Schedule

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.

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.

Enable Schedule Setup

Check to enable the schedule.

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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.

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.

3.6.3 RADIUS

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.

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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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3.6.4 UPnP

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.