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Support for Linux clients and OPENVPN on R7000 or any other Netgear router
Althought the R7000 router has support for MAC and Windows clients when using the Netgear R7000 OPENVPN built-in server, it does not support Linux as a client. See the following link: https://commu...
Hi HVOSPkxa,
There is a way to make it work in linux. (I'm currently using it with my Ubuntu laptop)
The steps to make it work in linux are the following:
- First install the openvpn client.
Open the terminal and type (depending on your distro)
Fedora/CentOS/RedHat:
sudo yum install openvpn
Ubuntu/Debian:
sudo apt-get install openvpn
- Then download the configuration files from the router.
Go to: Advanced Setup > VPN Service > (Under "OpenVPN configuration package download") For non-Windows
Extract the zip file in the folder, for example, /home/user(your username)/vpn/
- After you downloaded the openvpn client and the configuration files.
From the terminal do:
sudo openvpn --config /home/user/vpn/client2.conf --ifconfig 192.168.1.5 255.255.255.0 --route 192.168.1.1
Obs.: The way I got it to work is by assigning, to the virtual interface, an static IP(192.168.1.5 255.255.255.0). In my case, I got the network 192.168.1.0/24 so I chose an IP address that is not in the range of the DHCP. That way, I'm sure that there won't be another device with the same IP.