Weekly Update 7 January 2021
Latest Application Notes
PPPoE Overview and Troubleshooting ways
When PPPoE authentication issues are encountered it helps to understand the processes involved to troubleshoot and find out what is causing the issue. This article describes the 6 stages involved in PPPoE authentication and how to interpret WAN Wireshark data captures
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VPN
OpenVPN between NordVPN and Vigor Router
Vigor routers such as Vigor2927(v4.2.2), Vigor2865(v4.2.2), Vigor2765(v4.2.1.1) support dialing out OpenVPN tunnel to cloud servers. This article documents how to create an OpenVPN LAN-to-LAN tunnel from Vigor Router. NordVPN as an example in this application note.
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Latest Firmware
New Features
· - Support Mesh (for "ac" model only).
· - Hardware acceleration session can be monitored by local service such as Data Flow Monitor, IP Traffic Graph and etc.
Improvements
· - Support WPA3 for wireless connection.
· - Support Hardware acceleration with QoS.
· - Support PIN code generator for Hotspot Web Portal.
· - Improve IPsec performance by Hardware Acceleration.
· - Support Data Usage Analytics for LTE and USB WAN interface (SD-WAN).
· - Username and password for both LAN-to-LAN and Host to LAN VPN are increased to 128 characters.
· - Improvement for OpenVPN.
o Support LAN to LAN
o Support TLS 1.3
o Support to import certificates from OpenVPN config file.
o Improve the performance by using Hardware Crypto engine.
Click here to download the firmware.
Improvements
· - Add brute force protection support for VPN.
· - Make system uptime precise even after a long period of time.
· - Fixed: A security issue regarding private keys used in the RSA certificate.
· - Fixed: An issue of memory leakage and buffer overwrite.
· - Fixed: An issue of bandwidth limit auto adjust failure.
· - Fixed: An issue that WAN 5~8 could not use MAC other than "001daa".
· - Fixed: A stability issue related to VPN (L2TP buffer stack overflow).
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