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Andy1972
Aspirant
Mar 04, 2021

OpenVPN

Hi all

I'm a bit stuck with the set-up of the VPN. I followed the instruction of the Nighthawk MR60 manual, but somehow does not get it to work.

 

As stated above, i'm using MR60 and 1 MS60. Working on a MacBook Pro (early 2015/OS Catalina). 

 

What i did so far: 

- enabled the VPN in the Router (checked for all websites and local network)

- enabled DDNS service (and signed up to no IP)

- entered the login details in the DDNS tab of the router

- downloaded the config files (took my hours to find out, that it won't work with language set as "auto")

- installed tunnelblick

- copied the config file (only the config file) into tunnelblick (it worked, but i had to enriched the config file with "remote-cert-tls server"

- Tunnelblick is now running, but i got the message "waiting for server reply). If i change the wifi to my iphone hotspot, i do not have acces to my network

- importing the generated config files in the iphone OpenVPN app generates an parser Error.

 

Does anyone have a clue what i'm doing wrong? Is there anything else i have to configure/install?

 

I'm completly new to this. So i might have missed something.

 

Thanks in advance for your help

Andy

 

2 Replies

  • Christian_R's avatar
    Christian_R
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Mar 05, 2021

    Hi Andy,

     

    If you recently purchased the device I would recommend contacting our support team as newly purchased devices are provided with 90 days of complimentary support. You may open a ticket by registering your device using the link below. 

     

    https://www.netgear.com/support/contact.aspx

     

    Christian 

    • Andy1972's avatar
      Andy1972
      Aspirant
      Mar 06, 2021

      Dear Christian

       

      Yes, i'm in contact with the support. I'm slowly coming closer to a result.

      What i found out so far is, that the files generated with the Tab "for non Windows" cannot be used for a mac (they don't have the extension .ovpn. This information was not given by the support, but fount in the internet.

      As it is still not running now, they suggest that i open port 1194. As i've never done it, i need to find a friend that can help me. hopefully this will solve all problems ;)

       

      Cheers

      Andy

       

      btw, the manual on how to set up the vpn is.... let's say not very accurat