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R7000 V1.0.6.28_1.1.8 "OpenVPN connection timeout"
Bought this router with support for VPN a week ago (Jan 12, 2016) after lots of researches, believing that would be one of the best choices for someone who wants to setup VPN at home. VPN was the mai...
I had the same problem, and of course I also could not figure out the problem. until now.....
The problem was a factory reset. My R7000 is connected to the router of my ISP, on that ISP-router I configured a port-redirect to a specific IP adress (that of my R7000). Due to this factory reset, my R7000's IP adress changed, so the solution was quite simple, change the redirect to the new IP adress and it worked again.
I hope this information helps.
Thanks "2nafish2"!
That makes a lot of sense. If you don't mind me to ask (because although I have learned a lot about networking in the past few days - I'm more like a software developer), in the ISP-router you are talking about FORWARDING, right (not PORT FILTERS and not PORT TRIGGERS)? Because I am looking into my ISP-router ADVANCED tab trying to figure out where exactly to set that redirection.
If it is the "Forwarding" option, I have a few things to set: "Public Port Range" (?-?), "Target IP Address" (I already know), "Target Port Range" (another ?-?), and "Protocol" (I selected "Both" for UDP and TCP). So, my confusion is only with the first and third ones (Public and Target Port ranges). What would be the range? I guess I need to do it for all ports but which are the minimum and maximum values? Would that be safe?
Many thanks anyways! You already pointed where the problem is located.
Fabricio Braga
Never mind! I finally figured it out. Working now! :)
I'm glad that I could be helpful, it took me a while too before I had this idea.
I took the settings for redirecting a range of ports to a specific IP, is that forwarding or triggering? I've set a range of 7 ports to my R7000 and 1 to my NAS
It must be safe, and an other option is the DMZ, but only if there aren't any other diveces connected to the ISP-router, DMZ will open all ports without firewall, so the next device (R7000 in my case) must protect itself, and the R7000 can so....
But the problem is solved so, have fun!
I understand NAT is for a hard drive I want to attach to the router, for example, so to share its files to my private network's devices (something I am trying to do right now), but I also understand that if I set DMZ then I don't need to set NAS as everything goes to my new router anyway. Is that right? I am currently having trouble to see the folders in my sharing hard drive while accesing it through a browser although I am not getting any error messages. I can access it, the router's icon shows up, but not the hard drive (and its folders) yet... and I have already added some of these folders to the sharing network in the router. Trying to figure out what am I missing... :/
All good now. Everything was fine. Just took a while to start functioning.