Operation Manual
Vigor2133 Series User’s Guide 
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The ISP often provides you with a dynamic IP address when you connect to the Internet via 
your ISP. It means that the public IP address assigned to your router changes each time you 
access the Internet. The Dynamic DNS feature lets you assign a domain name to a dynamic 
WAN IP address. It allows the router to update its online WAN IP address mappings on the 
specified Dynamic DNS server. Once the router is online, you will be able to use the registered 
domain name to access the router or internal virtual servers from the Internet. It is 
particularly helpful if you host a web server, FTP server, or other server behind the router.   
Before you use the Dynamic DNS feature, you have to apply for free DDNS service to the DDNS 
service providers. The router provides up to three accounts from three different DDNS service 
providers. Basically, Vigor routers are compatible with the DDNS services supplied by most 
popular DDNS service providers such as www.dyndns.org, www.no-ip.com, www.dtdns.com, 
www.changeip.com, www.dynamic- nameserver.com. You should visit their websites to 
register your own domain name for the router. 
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The LAN DNS lets the network administrators host servers with privacy and security. When the 
network administrators of your office set up FTP, Mail or Web server inside LAN, you can 
specify specific private IP address (es) to correspondent servers. Thus, even the remote PC is 
adopting public DNS as the DNS server, the LAN DNS resolution on Vigor2133 series will 
respond the specified private IP address. 
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The Vigor router has a built-in 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. 
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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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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. 
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