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RBR750P - No IP address for VPN Connection
I have configured OpenVPN as per Netgear's instructions and it believes it connects from a laptop running Windows, but I cannot access anything on the LAN (e.g., RDP or router via browser). Also, wh...
Thanks. I just connected a Windows 11 PC to an RBR750 running OpenVPN server. Here's how my Attached Devices screen appears on a computer connected to the RBR750 at IP 10.0.0.5 (sorry for the device name. I was confirming how many characters long a device name can be.)
Notice the VPN device appears with local IP 10.0.0.6. To confirm this, I opened a command window on the VPN computer and displayed ipconfig /all
This confirms that the remote computer connected via a TAP adapter (the goofy default for Windows connections) and was assigned 10.0.0.6. Opened a web browser to 10.0.0.1 (the RBR750 LAN IP) and it shows the same situation.
This is the version of OpenVPN running on the remote computer:
Here are the images from the remote laptop:
On the interface for the router from within the LAN (not via VPN), the laptop connected via VPN does not appear. There is no VPN section listed like there is on the image you provided. None of the devices have the 1.18 IP address assigned either.
(Sorry. I did not see this response and have been wondering what is going on. Probably erased the notification by accident. "my bad".)
This appears to be evidence that the VPN connection has succeeded.
- The default IP subnet for Orbi routers is 192.168.1.x, and a device connected with the Windows Open VPN TAP protocol will receive an IP address on the Orbi LAN. (192.168.1.18 is such an IP address.
When I connect to my test RBR750, the LAN IP is 10.0.0.x and this is why my VPN connection receives the IP assignment that it does.
What is not expected is that the Orbi router Attached Devices does not identify this device.
Would it be possible to attempt a VPN connection with another device? perhaps a smartphone or tablet?
I don't see how. It is pointing at the static IP address where the router is. As I indicated in the OP, the IP address in the configuration folder is correct, which makes sense since it's generated by the router when it generated the configuration files.
- The default IP subnet for Orbi routers is 192.168.1.x, and a device connected with the Windows Open VPN TAP protocol will receive an IP address on the Orbi LAN. (192.168.1.18 is such an IP address.