Need Some Assistance Setting up a VPN

[Jason Holtzapple]

On 07/15/2013 04:32 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:
> After a little investigation I found:
> 
> 1. As a user-space VPN daemon, OpenVPN is compatible with SSL/TLS, RSA
> Certificates and X509 PKI, NAT, DHCP, and TUN/TAP virtual devices.
> OpenVPN is not compatible with IPSec, IKE, PPTP, or L2TP.
> (http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/341-openvpn-compatibility.html)
> 
> 2. Android 4 comes with VPN type:
>> PPTP
>> L2TP/IPSec PSK
>> L2TP/IPSec RSA
>> IPSec Xauth PSK
>> IPSec Xauth RSA
>> IPSec Hybrid RSA
> 
> Which seems to say that I have to go with an "after market" app.
> 
> Back to my original question - since I don't seem to be able to bridge
> my vpn connection from android (no tap in the openvpn android app), how
> do I use a routed vpn connection (only tun available in the openvpn
> android app) to my router to access any server on my network?

I have the same router as you (but I don't use dd-wrt, I use Toastman's
Tomato variant). Tomato comes with a PPTP server, if dd-wrt has one why
not use that?