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    Release Notes for Vigor2900 Series

    Firmware Version    : v2.5.1
    Release Date        : January 08, 2004

    Applied Models      : Vigor2900, Vigor2900i, Vigor2900G, and Vigor2900Gi

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[Before You Upgrading]

Vigor2900 Series is a new product family which includes Vigor2900, Vigor2900i, Vigor2900G,
and Vigor2900Gi.  Individual product in the family is a highly integrated broadband 
security router, combining high-speed routing technology with a comprehensive security 
suite of firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), URL filtering facilities, as well as
bandwidth management capability(*), printer-server, and secure wireless access point.
To compare with the existing broadband routers, for example, Vigor2300 and Vigor2104P,
the new product family not only employs higher-performance components including 
ARM9 network processor and hardware accelerator for DES/3DES encryption to improve the 
router's performance, but also enhances the security capabilities including advanced URL
filtering, stateful packet inspection facilities.

It should be noticed that the Vigor2900G and Vigor2900Gi routers support IEEE 802.11g protocol with 
data rate of 54Mbps for wireless LAN. 

For the details of product information, please refer to the datasheet or visit the Draytek website 
http://www.draytek.com.tw


[Release Firmware]

    Standard firmware
	      Fireware file name: v2k90251.all  v2k90251.rst
	      Firmware Version :  v2.5.1

    MD5 checksum of v2k90251.all:  589314c7fe752acc912f0bd047710551
    MD5 checksum of v2k90251.rst:  30683d8e4b9fff8483a06ffaf38c79f4
                
Notes:

1. This release firmware does not allow to upgrade all previous series of broadband routers which 
includes Vigor2200E, Vigor2200, Vigor2200X, Vigor2200We, Vigor2200W, Vigor2200W plus, Vigor2300, 
and Vigor2104p.
  
2. You have to upgrade "*.RST" firmware file once you suffer from the booting problems after 
upgrading.  To upgrade "*.RST" firmware file will erase the existing router's settings, 
and restore it to the factory default setting.

Normally, you should upgrade your router by using "*.ALL" firmware file.  However, 
whenever you upgrade your router with "*.ALL" firmware file several times but it 
is unsuccessful, we suggest that you had better to upgrade the "*.RST" firmware 
file into your router.  

3. After upgrading successfully, you are able to make sure the upgraded firmware version
listed on the top side of the Web user interface. 

4. Do not attempt to restore old settings from a configuration backup file which is 
downloaded from the previous firmware version.  


5. If you have any problem, please visit http://www.draytek.com.tw/ to download the new firmware.

[Release Note]

In addition to those available functions of Vigor2900 broadband router, we have provided 
some other powerful functions, as listed below. 

  - LPR Print Server via the USB Printer port on the back panel

  - VLAN facility with support of port-based rate throttle capability

  - Up to 32 simultaneous VPN tunnels
 
  - Enhanced URL content filtering facility
    * Block downloads of file types: compressed and multimedia files
    * Block web site cookies and proxy
    * Support exceptional handling for a set of subnets and/or individual IP addresses
    * Support time schedule to control the restriction and regular Internet access

  - E-mail alert against DoS attacks


[New feature] (After F/W v2.5rc1)

  - Automatic detection and prevention of IP spoofing on LAN side. (New!!)

  
[Major Bug fixed] (After F/W v2.5rc1)
 
   1. Support the firmware upgarade and restoration via HTTP/TFTP.
   2. Disable FTP function to upgrade/download F/W in order to avoid the router's reboot.
   3. Solve the problem on the link speed of the WAN port, particularly, 10 Mbps Half duplex. 
   4. Improve the speed for the WebUI configuration.
   5. Patch the NAT failure on none directly connected subnet.
   6. Patch the port-redirection function failure after a period of usage.
   7. Patch the failure that may deny reply for unicast ARP request.
   8. Block any WebUI access capability of using network address from WAN side.
   9. Support up to 80 characters for username in the Quick Start Wizard when you edit the PPTP or PPPoE profile.

[Minor Bug fixed] (After F/W v2.5rc1)
 
   1. The default character-set of the web configuration is changed from big5 to iso-8859-1 so that 
      the character set of "Chinese language pack" is not required now.
   2. Be able to change the default HTTP port by using Telnet. 
   3. Patch the WebUI bug on the "VPN Remote Access User Accounts" setup, particularly, for index 12. 
   4. Patch the failure to configure a static route for a host route.
   5. Patch the failure to configure the TCP/IP setting of LAN to LAN profile for the remote network.
   6. Improve the Ugly WebUI running on MAC-OS.

[Under Development]

   - VPN over Wireless LAN 
   
   - 802.1x User Authentication
  
   - WPA facility support for wireless 802.11g
  
   - Bandwith Management facilities (IP QoS Function)
  
   - ISDN Backup facilities for Vigor2900i and Vigor2900Gi models.
   
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