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Apprentice

Feb 01, 2020

BR500 and IPSec direct VPN

On my old FVS336 firewalls, I could do a direct IPSec connection. In fact, that was the only way I could get a VPN to work from my Android devices. I am using the Insight software to get my PC to VPN...

DaneA

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Feb 03, 2020

tetrawest,

Let me share the article here on how to configure OpenVPN on BR500. Hope it helps. :)

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Regards,

DaneA
NETGEAR Community Team

tetrawest

Apprentice

Feb 03, 2020

Dana,

Thanks for the respone, but it doesn't resolve the issue, which is OpenVPN picking a poor choice for the pseudo-network address.

Nor did you give any insight into why the IPSec VPN drop down doesn't give me a peer to LAN option.

James

DaneA
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Feb 05, 2020
tetrawest,

Nor did you give any insight into why the IPSec VPN drop down doesn't give me a peer to LAN option.

Kindly post screenshots of the drop down you are referring to. To what OS is the OpenVPN installed?

Regards,

DaneA

NETGEAR Community Team
- tetrawest
  Apprentice
  Feb 07, 2020
  - tetrawest
    Apprentice
    Feb 07, 2020
    The first Picture is the IPSec Page
    Second picture is after clicking the Add button
    Third is the drop down requested
    Fourth is the "help" menu for the page showing there should be multiple options