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Chapter 1
Introduction
1.1 An Overview of the ADSL2+ VPN Router
Broadband Sharing and IP sharing
The ADSL VPN Firewall Router supports 4 x 10/100 Mbps auto-negotiating Fast Ethernet
ports for connection to your PC or LAN and downstream (with built-in ADSL2+ modem) rate
up to 24Mbps. Power by NAT technology, dozens of network users can surf on the Internet
and share the ADSL connection simultaneously by using one ISP account and one single IP
address.
Security: Firewall & VLAN
This product also serves as an Internet firewall, protecting your network from being accessed
by outside users. Not only provide the natural firewall function (Network Address Translation,
NAT), it also provides rich firewall features to secure user's network.
The VLANs allow to segment the traffic of net and, in this way, they improve management
and performance of entire network.
VPN
The router supports embedded Virtual Private Network (VPN) protocols and up to 16
simultaneous IPSec VPN tunnels for users to establish private encrypted tunnels over the
public Internet (up to 4 VPN tunnels on A02-RA340). With built-in DES/3DES optimized
microcode, the router enhances IPSec VPN performance significantly and ensures data
transmitted securely between two or more sites.
Quality of Service and IP Throttling
QoS gives you full control over which types of outgoing data traffic should be given priority by
the router, ensuring important data like gaming packets move through the router at lightning
speed, even under heavy load.
Using IP Throttling, bandwidth limits can be enforced on any system within your LAN, or even
on a particular application.
Easy Configuration and Management
Support web based GUI and Telnet for configuration and management. Also supports remote
management (Web and telnet) capability for remote user to configure and manage this
product. It incorporates besides a client Dynamic DNS.