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Olympus007
Oct 14, 2018Follower
Need VPN connection to give my iPhone an ip address on my home subnet (and support broadcast).
Before, I was using a different Netgear Wifi router and one of the reasons for changing to the R8500 was its VPN support. The problem with the VPN is that it does not let me access all the devices t...
- Oct 14, 2018
No. For K.I.S.S. the consumer device OpenVPN implementations support basically TUN (routing, with a dedicated VLAN subnet) but not TAP (full L2 bridging).
Before you start singing and hacking the router OpenVPN configuration: iOS does not allow OpenVPN with TAP, FMI -> FAQ regarding OpenVPN Connect iOS
schumaku
Oct 14, 2018Guru - Experienced User
No. For K.I.S.S. the consumer device OpenVPN implementations support basically TUN (routing, with a dedicated VLAN subnet) but not TAP (full L2 bridging).
Before you start singing and hacking the router OpenVPN configuration: iOS does not allow OpenVPN with TAP, FMI -> FAQ regarding OpenVPN Connect iOS