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nodaicrag
Aspirant
Mar 28, 2017
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VPN R7900 Connected to home, but no internet

hello,   I was able to connect to my VPN home router in the USA. I have the R7900 Nighthawk. I followed the instructions from netgear and set up the client on my laptop abroad. I successfully conne...
No internet
R7900
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VPN
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    nodaicrag
    Apr 02, 2017

    Thank you. I tried uninstalling, reinstalling and making sure all networks selected. I opened status page, if it helps it says something like "us=165694 Recursive routing detected, drop tun packet to [AF_INET]myipaddress:12974

     

    Any other ideas? thank you

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JamesGL
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Mar 30, 2017

Hi nodaicrag,

Unistall and reinstall the OpenVPN client on your computer. Also during the generating of the certificate make sure you have selected the "All sites on the Internet and Home network".

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nodaicrag
Aspirant
Apr 02, 2017

Thank you. I tried uninstalling, reinstalling and making sure all networks selected. I opened status page, if it helps it says something like "us=165694 Recursive routing detected, drop tun packet to [AF_INET]myipaddress:12974

 

Any other ideas? thank you