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R7000 VPN Service TAP or TUN
I am trying to use the VPN server built into my R7000 router, however it does not work as advertized. The R7000 users guide indicates that Android is not supported, however the help centre (help...
Thank you for your response and I will wait until a fully supported release of this firmware is available for the general public. After reading the comments regarding this firmware it seems there may be some bugs yet to be resolved. For the time being I need a stable release of firmware and will continue to use a Virtual Machine as a VPN server. The good news is this feature is coming.
Over the years I have had several Netgear routers, but have always found the stock Netgear firmware to lack in features and as a result I have run DD-WRT firmware. The main reason I purchased this router was because it was suppose to implement a VPN server which is a feature I really wanted and this would allow me to run a stable, sanctioned, and supported Netgear firmware (a big plus in my books). I was quite disapointed to learn that the VPN server only supported Windows and MAC clients. Therefore the VPN implementation was useless to me since I run Ubuntu on my Laptop and use android devices. As a result I had to create a Linux VPN server running in a Virtual Machine (or go back to using a third party firmware, which are not always stable). Open VPN is supported on almost every platform, therefore restricting the clients that can connect to the routers VPN seems like an oversight and should theoretically be simple to implement.
Therefore do you know if there are any plans to implement support for Linux and add VPN client into the firmware for this router? Linux support for me would be a priority, and a VPN client would simply be a nice feature to have.
Sincerely,
Michael
Thank you for your response and I will wait until a fully supported release of this firmware is available for the general public. After reading the comments regarding this firmware it seems there may be some bugs yet to be resolved. For the time being I need a stable release of firmware and will continue to use a Virtual Machine as a VPN server. The good news is this feature is coming.
Over the years I have had several Netgear routers, but have always found the stock Netgear firmware to lack in features and as a result I have run DD-WRT firmware. The main reason I purchased this router was because it was suppose to implement a VPN server which is a feature I really wanted and this would allow me to run a stable, sanctioned, and supported Netgear firmware (a big plus in my books). I was quite disapointed to learn that the VPN server only supported Windows and MAC clients. Therefore the VPN implementation was useless to me since I run Ubuntu on my Laptop and use android devices. As a result I had to create a Linux VPN server running in a Virtual Machine (or go back to using a third party firmware, which are not always stable). Open VPN is supported on almost every platform, therefore restricting the clients that can connect to the routers VPN seems like an oversight and should theoretically be simple to implement.
Therefore do you know if there are any plans to implement support for Linux and add VPN client into the firmware for this router? Linux support for me would be a priority, and a VPN client would simply be a nice feature to have.
Sincerely,
Michael
