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Enabling VPN on RBK50 causes internet to disconnect
I just got the RBK53 today and so far really like it and the features it has. I have it all updated and configured to work really well within my network and using hard-wired backchannel for satelites...
That sounds wired, since enabling VPN should -as far as I know- not do anything to do with internet connectivity.
The only thing that I can think of is the DDNS settings, since VPN is directly related to the DDNS settings. What DDNS sevice are you using? What do you get when checking the status of DDNS (clicking on SHOW STATUS under the DDNS settings)?
First off, thank you for your reply!
I'm using the DDNS attached to no-ip.com. It all works fine, and when I "Show Status" I get a reply myddns-domain.com updated successfully at 05:52 PM, 03/24/2019
I was originally not going to use DDNS on the router since I have a client running on one of my machines which works fine. I'm guessing that DDNS must be enabled for VPN to work for configuration.
I'm also pretty stumped on this. I'm no newbie to this stuff and it makes absolutely no sense to me why it would take out the internet. The actual "Internet" tile on my home page shows as having a problem when this happens... so the router itself can clearly not detect the network when this happens.
Drakier wrote:
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I'm also pretty stumped on this. I'm no newbie to this stuff and it makes absolutely no sense to me why it would take out the internet. The actual "Internet" tile on my home page shows as having a problem when this happens... so the router itself can clearly not detect the network when this happens.
Then I would think this can be a sort of data corruption in the VPN settings, and I'd try to factory reset the router as a first step if you have not already done this after getting the VPN issue.