DD-WRT and OpenVPN

[Walter Mack]

I tried this about a year ago, and it didn't work for me, because the 
router I had at the time (some netgear thing I believe) didn't have 
enough memory. Todd C. told me that you can get vpn to work on earlier 
routers(yes, earlier ones), because they had larger memories. In later 
models they used smaller memories, I imagine for cost savings..


On 12/03/2014 02:54 PM, Michael Butash wrote:
> I just went through this myself not long ago, it's a pain, but I've 
> sort of got it working (with some caveats).
>
> I used tinyca to generate the certs, quick google finds many how-to's 
> for this.  I can give you the rest of the dd-wrt settings I have setup 
> to make it work on mine.  Using networkmanager-plugin-openvpn works 
> nicely here to connect.
>
> Caveat I can't seem to make work is getting dnsmasq to respond on 
> another vpn subnet I'm routing as well, as I split a separate subnet 
> for vpn users.  Downside is it breaks dns resolution when connecting, 
> so not viable for full remote access, but I'm usually just rsyncing 
> files to my filer at home anyways.
>
> I also couldn't figure out how to get a working ovpn file to deal with 
> a windoze box connecting.  Linux works fine, I tell my windoze-using 
> friends no file access for them.
>
> It otherwise works just fine connecting to hosts in the main local 
> vlan subnet, and I can route to the internet if I override my 
> resolv.conf manually for dns until I play with dnsmasq again.  
> Everything I did seemed to break it from working at all.
>
> There is some sore documentation here around this for sure.  I never 
> made it fully work to bother fully documenting myself.
>
> -mb
>
>
> On 12/03/2014 02:20 PM, Ted Gould wrote:
>>
>> I've got a router running DD-WRT and I'd like to enable the OpenVPN 
>> feature on it. But, I'm a little confused with the configuration 
>> mostly in the category of "additional config". While I've found a few 
>> blog posts on configs, it's unclear what the defaults are and if 
>> they're actually sane defaults for my (super simple) VPN needs. Has 
>> anyone looked into this and have recommendations on what good 
>> defaults are there? I mostly want to connect with devices/machines 
>> running Network Manager, so I have a good deal of configurability 
>> available.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ted
>>
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