IKEv2 EAP VPN - Vigor Router 2960/3900 to Perfect Privacy [EN]

For the configuration it is necessary that the router uses a firmware version 1.5.0 or higher.

In this manual we explain how to establish an IKEv2 EAP VPN tunnel from your v2960 or v3900 router to a Perfect Privacy-Server server.

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Perfect Privacy Settings

1. Register under perfect-privacy.com

2. Download the Perfect Privacy Certificate.

3. Select a VPN server:

  • Server selection
  • From the list of available servers, select the appropriate server that you want to use for the VPN.
  • In the following picture "berlin.perfect-privacy.com" is our recommended Perfect Privacy server.
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Perfect Privacy-Server

Settings on the Vigor router

1. The router should have an active WAN connection.

2. The time and date settings should be up-to-date.

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Zeit- und Datumseinstellung

4. Go to Certificate Management >> Trusted CA Certificate and click on "Upload".

5. Then select the downloaded certificate and transfer it to the router.

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Zertifikatsimport

6. After successful upload the certificate appears in the overview.

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Trusted CA Übersicht

7. Create the VPN profile under "VPN and Remote Access >> VPN Profiles >> IPsec"

Click Add to open the window for creating a new VPN profile.

Under the Basics tab you make the following settings:

  • Enable ensures that the profile is active.
  • Dial-Out Through defines the WAN port to be used.
  • Local IP / Subnet Mask defines the LAN network that the VPN should use.
  • For Remote Host enter the VPN server of your choice.
  • Enter 0.0.0.0 and 0.0.0.0/0 as Remote IP / Subnet Mask.
  • The IKE Protocol must be set to IKEv2_EAP.
  • Use your Perfect Privacy credentials for Username and Password.
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IPsec VPN-Profil

Go to Advance tab.

The option Set VPN as Default Gateway must be set to Enable.

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IPsec Advanced

Go to Proposal tab:

  • IKE Phase1 Proposal [Dial-Out] = AES256 G14
  • IKE Phase2 Proposal [Dial-Out] = AES256 with auth
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IPsec Proposals

After all settings have been applied, the new profile appears in the overview

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VPN-Profilübersicht

If the tunnel is successfully established, it will be displayed in Connection Management.

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VPN Connection Management