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R7000 - VPN Service - No client.crt
Current Firmware version: V1.0.11.134_10.2.119 I enabled the DDYNS and VPN services and upon downloading the openVPN configuration pakage it only containers ca.crt, client.key and client3.ovpn. C...
You need to download the configuration package for Smart Phone. It consists of a zip file with one file inside. The smart phone configuration package combines the four required parts into one file. The file name is smart_phone.ovpn.
Kitsap wrote:You need to download the configuration package for Smart Phone. It consists of a zip file with one file inside. The smart phone configuration package combines the four required parts into one file. The file name is smart_phone.ovpn.
I'm on FW version V1.0.11.134_10.2.119, but the above answer is incorrect. Having just now downloaded smartphone.zip, the configuration package contains 4 files - ca.crt, client.crt, client.key, and client3.ovpn.
Importing the ovpn file into Android's OpenVPN errors with the OP's message. I've read other posts where manually combining the files into a single ovpn can succeed, but I have yet to make that work.
Does Netgear even test these VPN configurations? I have owned my R7000 for years and despite several attempts over the years, never once has the default configuration worked for me.
I found a working format for the inline ovpn files. Follow this example here to merge the ca.cert, client.cert, and client.key files into the ovpn file.
https://gist.github.com/renatolfc/f6c9e2a5bd6503005676
The example includes settings for TLS as well. Don't include those sections in the modified netgear ovpn. And obviously get the contents for the <ca>, <cert>, and <key> sections from your own respective files.
Also, you have to comment out the lines
ca [inline]
cert [inline]
key [inline]so they become
#ca [inline]
#cert [inline]
#key [inline]After that, it should work.