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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...
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.