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NCoastJack
Jul 25, 2025Guide
RBR850 OpenVPN After Factory Reset
I've had my setup of an RBR850 & 2 RBS750 satellites for a few years now. Have mostly worked great. I also have OpenVPN using DDNS working just fine so I could occasionally connect from my iPhone to ...
- Jul 30, 2025
Thanks for your participation in this thread. So, I did some review this morning and finally got it to work.
I ended up turning off UPNP (since I have a couple of port forwards set) and, turned off DMZ for a particular IP address.And poof - it started working. Surprising to me, because neither of the VPN UDP ports were included in any of the above - unless the DMZ caused the conflict?
I'm pretty sure I turned UPNP off and tested it previously - but, maybe I didn't give it enough time. Who knows. Happy its working now though and I'm making notes & a backup for future reference.
CrimpOn
Jul 28, 2025Guru - Experienced User
After the reset and reconfiguration, was the VPN configuration file downloaded again, and you are using the new file rather than the .ovpn file that worked before?