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Resolved work VPN connection issue Orbi AX4200
My work uses a split tunnel with OpenVPN and I was having issues connecting, specifically to a range of IPs. For example, 10.0.0.X were giving me problems while something like 10.2.99.X was not. My I...
jesshart wrote:
I hope this helps save time for someone else. My IT guy thought it was strange the unit shipped with this as the default. I don't know enough about networks to understand what he means, but I see the confusion.
Very good description. Thanks for sharing the solution. The IT guy was correct. Consumer routers almost always ship with 192.168.1.x as the default LAN, however when they detect that the router they are attached is using 192.168.1.x to assign an IP to the consumer's router, they will change from 192.168.1.x to a different private IP subnet. Netgear Orbi, for example, switches to 10.0.0.x for its LAN subnet.
Netgear could have chosen any private subnet, such as 192.168.2.x (192.168.3.x ....), but they chose to switch to 10.0.0.x.
(I have an Orbi that I attach to my house Orbi for testing, and it does exactly the same switch. When I am connected to this test router I will see a message saying that the IP was changed "to avoid a conflict."
My guess is that your router did the same. It initially wanted to use 192.168.1.x, but that was already taken by the ISP router.