Support for Linux clients and OPENVPN on R7000 or any other Netgear router

 Jeffyry,

The first thing you need to do is upgrade your R7000 Router firmware to the latest version.  I am currently running version V1.0.6.28_1.1.83

You may run into some issues if you do an upgrade as your router may not work well after the upgrade.  Netgear's upgrades do not work well in my experience. There are many references to problems in the forum such as the 2.4G band does not work or works intermittently, etc....  

I also ran into several issues, and resolved them, by copying down/printing all of my router settings, doing a reset of the router, upgrading the router to the new firmware, doing another reset of the router, then manually applying all of the settings.  Since I had a lot of configuration information, such as port forwarding, static DHCP setting, etc..., this took a significant amount of time to re-enter my original configuration.  The good news is the router has been rather stable since doing this.  I do find that I have to reboot it periodically because my internet speeds slow down. Following the reboot life is good again for a couple of months.

Once you have the latest firmware installed got to the Advance Tab => Advance Setup => VPN Service and you will now see three option:

1. For Windows
2. For Non-Windows
3. For Smartphone

I selected the Smartphone option which created a "smartphone.zip" file. Once this file was extracted I then had the following files called:

• ca.crt
• client.crt
• client.key
• client3.ovpn

These are the files I pointed my OpenVPN client to in UBUNTU using the procedure I supplied in an earlier post. This will create a TUN connection.