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OpenVPN v3 on Windows 11
Hi all, I have an Orbi RBS50 router (running the latest firmware) on which I activated VPN. On my iPhone I can connect just fine to it. Now I want my laptop (Windows 11 Pro) to connect to it so ...
Hey Marrik. I know this is an old thread, so I'm not sure how you went with this. I was able to get OpenVPN 3.7.2 working with my Orbi. I tried multiple ways to make OpenVPN 2.x work with the router but nothing ever worked. I was able to successfully connect via the phone (also based on OpenVPN 3.x,) which is what indicated that this client should be good. Here's what I changed before importing the client.ovpn file:
- dev tun
- proto tcp
- remote xxx.xxx.xxx 12973
- Removed the following lines:
- dev-node NETGEAR-VPN
- resolv-retry infinite
- persist-key
- persist-tun
This configuration still shows a warning regarding server-side compression reducing security. There's also a bunch of other issues with the security of this configuration which would be great change; however, the other change I could make was to change the cipher to AES-256-GCM.
HTH