OpenVPN on iPhone fails to import profile for NightHawk R700P

Thank you for the help.  I got it working now.  Took some other trial and error.  Here is what I did (my router is R6700v).

First main issue is that you cannot connect to a VPN network while on that same network it points to. Must turn off wifi on cell phone and use cell service to connect to VPN.  To test on a PC, disable wired NIC card, use phone as hotspot (which turns off cell’s wifi automatically), connect computer to hotspot, then start VPN on the PC.  If you don’t do this you will get errors and not connect. (This was my biggest hurdle, and from the forums where I was searching my errors - seems to be the cause of most folk's errors)

On the VPN settings in router web interface:

For Windows

• Click download “For Windows” and save zip file
• Download OpenVPN from https://openvpn.net/community-downloads/
• Must install client on PC (no portable versions exist)
• Rename the Local Area Connection (the one showing TAP in title) to NETGEAR-VPN
• Extract the contents of windows.zip to C:\Users\USERNAME\OpenVPN\config
• Try running OpenVPN as normal user.  If not working, then right click, run as Administrator.
• Right click OpenVPN icon in system tray and hit connect.

For SmartPhone

• Click  download “For Smart Phone” and save zip file
• Extract contents to folder
• Open “client3.ovpn” in notepad
  • Delete the three lines:
    • ca ca.crt
    • cert client.crt
    • key client.key
  • Add to the bottom of the file (thank you webcurl):

<ca>

Entire contents of file “ca.crt”

</ca>

<cert>

Entire contents of file “client.crt”

</cert>

<key>

Entire contents of file “client.key”

</key>

• Make sure you have some returns/blank lines as shown and at the end of the file.
• Save file.
• Copy to phone (cannot load file to OpenVPN from shared drive because you’ll be on same network and it will fail when trying to add it to OpenVPN)
• Install OpenVPN app on phone
• On the phone, click on the earlier saved file “client3.ovpn,” hit share icon, then open with OpenVPN. Click add.
• Note… after connecting, the OpenVPN app showed my iPhone with an IP Address in a different subnet than what the DHCP on my router is designed to divvy out.  I can on the cell phone now login to router settings via web interface and look under my Router’s “attached devices” and see two connections: the VPN connection with IP in different subnet, and another IP address within proper subnet. I can access everything on my network now.

Hope this helps others out there.

-Alchle