I support sites that use Draytek Vigor routers and have quite a lot of them in service. These tend to be the business grade Vigor 2820 series and the sites use them for their good Virtual Private Network (VPN) support as they connect reliably and securely to various firewalls. The VPN's are all IPsec based and once correctly configured work well and generate very few problems.

One of my customers told me that they would be introducing a new Electronic Point of Sale (EPoS) system that would require a secure connection (VPN) between their shops and the head office. The EPoS supplier had recommended Draytek Vigor routers so I expected the job to be pretty straight forward.

I already had a base configuration that I knew worked so all I expected to do is to get the customers firewall correctly configured and then configure one router so I could show their IT staff how it all works. Well that was my plan but it has not turned out to be quite as easy as I had thought it would be. Read More…