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Nighthawk X6 R8000 - iPhone cannot connect to home network over OpenVPN
Hi, all, I managed to get my iPhone (6S, iOS 10.3.2) connected to my home VPN on my Nighthawk X6 R8000 using the stock firmware version 1.0.3.46_1.1.32, and I am able to connect to the router set...
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Turns out it's some kind of server configuration error for my main Linux media server. I was able to connect from my phone to another web server on a different machine using an IP address on the 192.168.1.x subnet, so I figure there must be something going on with the Linux server that doesn't allow connections from any other subnet except across a separate VPN tunnel. Kinda frustrating, but not really the router's problem (though I would still like the option to drop Nighthawk VPN users onto the same subnet as local WiFi and Ethernet connections...
Thanks for the help in trying to troubleshoot!
Hi, James,
My phone is already set to get its IP address from the server, and I downloaded the OpenVPN files directly from the router, so there was no way to set up the subnet. I don't understand the logic of assigning VPN connections to a xxx.xxx.254.xxx subnet...I'd rather it just dropped me in with the rest of my LAN and wireless devices on the 192.162.1.xxx subnet.
Thanks,
Follow up to this post...
Turns out it's some kind of server configuration error for my main Linux media server. I was able to connect from my phone to another web server on a different machine using an IP address on the 192.168.1.x subnet, so I figure there must be something going on with the Linux server that doesn't allow connections from any other subnet except across a separate VPN tunnel. Kinda frustrating, but not really the router's problem (though I would still like the option to drop Nighthawk VPN users onto the same subnet as local WiFi and Ethernet connections...
Thanks for the help in trying to troubleshoot!
Turns out it's some kind of server configuration error for my main Linux media server. I was able to connect from my phone to another web server on a different machine using an IP address on the 192.168.1.x subnet, so I figure there must be something going on with the Linux server that doesn't allow connections from any other subnet except across a separate VPN tunnel. Kinda frustrating, but not really the router's problem (though I would still like the option to drop Nighthawk VPN users onto the same subnet as local WiFi and Ethernet connections...
Thanks for the help in trying to troubleshoot!