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OpenVPN on Android phone timeouts with Orbi
I have enabled VPN Service on my Orbi as directed on the Orbi manual and downloaded the OpenVPN profile for Smart phone. Which I imported on my Android phone but my phone does not connect to the VPN ...
There is no other NAT device - being carrier grade NAT (by your ISP) or another router between the Orbi and the ISP connection?
Compare the Internet/WAN IP address from the Orbi dashbord with the IP when asking Dr. Google what is my ip addess - if this is not the same, figure...
Thank you again.
Yes, I have used the OVPN Profile option on the OpenVPN to put the profile in place that I got from Orbi. Also, I can see in the logs that it is trying to connect to my DDNS and IP correctly but fails and timesout. Could not get further than that. I may be doing something wrong somewhere.
I also got myself into a mess when I created the DDNS entry and did not realize that ".mynetgear.com" was going to get added to my host name. (or was it the other way around?)
Interesting... I do not see that in my case.
I see in the OpenVPN logs that it trys to connect to the correct DDNS and IP.
There is no other NAT device - being carrier grade NAT (by your ISP) or another router between the Orbi and the ISP connection?
Compare the Internet/WAN IP address from the Orbi dashbord with the IP when asking Dr. Google what is my ip addess - if this is not the same, figure...
Thank you for that. It just reminded me that I have a AT&T router between Orbi and ISP.
So it looks like I have to open a UDP port on the ATT router.