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Re: XR500 Custom VPN?
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Re: XR500 Custom VPN?
Please read the guide carefully. Hybrid VPN supports all OpenVPN providers, of which most providers are (as you say). You just need to click the advanced option.
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Where are all the config options?
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while its the sadest implementation of something i have seen in a long while, to be fair it is there....
when you click the advanced button there will also be a larger open text field at the bottom. you have to actually get the .opvn file from your VPN provider (many will provide you one) or you have to take it from your openVPN client. Then you open it in a test editor and then copy the contents from the .opvn file into the open text field...
yea.. i know.. we have all said it or thought it.. but it 'technically' works.
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Yes, definitely clunky but i'll give that a shot. If it works then that's all I care about. 🙂
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I can also assign certain computers and devises on the network to the VPN.
What I have’nt figured out is how to assign a network to the VPN?
Example, I would like to assign a network as 192.168.3.x to VPN while 192.168.1.x is bypassing the VPN.
Anyone know how to do that?
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This seems to be a very bad router as far as wanting to use a vpn goes. My vpn service recommends using neither of these options and sending it back.
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@TeamRocket ... I'm a little bit confused what you want to achieve. To establish a VPN connection to the router - beyond of the requirement that the router must be exposed to the Internet (no carrier grade NAT, no ISP side firewall rules - unless properly configured for the OpenVPN config, ...) - obviously the router must have a pubic accessible IP address, either resolvable by a DDNS service (as the IP can and will change over time), or the "business" class approach would be paying for a fix assigned IP address (what most IT people tend to combine with a domain and a DNS entries - as FQDNs are easier than ip addresses). This DNS name, or DDNS name, or as last resort the static IP of your router Internet connection, must be used for the OpenVPN config for the "calling home" VPN. Wild guess this is what your new router does try to explain you - but it's unclear if the last post does talk of the router or the Windows system. The very same applies to any router. Just like your phone provider does assign phone numbers to your fixed line and your mobile phone, IP addresses are required to be reached. No number - so nowhere to call.
To establish a OpenVPN connection from your Windows system to your router, there is no VPN provider required - you generate the OpenVPN config on the router, and set it in place on your Windows (or whatever other) OpenVPN client.
If you on the other hand establish some VPN connection from the router to some hide-my-a**-type VPN provider - for example for all LAN IP addresses - all traffic from the LAN and the router will use that VPN provider default gateway. When establishing a VPN connection from your Windows system, it is possible the return traffic does not come back to the Windows system, instead it will flow to the VPN provider, and (of course) the VPN client on the WIndows system would fail.
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In my understanding, all Nighthawk Gaming Pro routers are supposed to have got the ability to configure a custom VPN client config for this (in a much more granular way). Somebody with a really XR500 at hand might confirm or deny (also one of the Duma mods).
The ability of flashing 3rd party firmware has not.much to do with Linksys vs. Netgear. It does not make much sense to buy an expensive Nighthawk Gaming Pro platform which does include the expensive and advanced Duma OS capabilities just to flash some basic 0815 firmware. That's why there might be not many 3rd part firmware build available for this router family - however these exist for the "original" platorm like the R7800.
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@TeamRocket As per a previous reply in this thread from a bout 23 January 2019 https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-Pro-Gaming-Routers/XR500-Custom-VPN/m-p/1694701/highlight... Custom VPN is available on all firmware (starting from about 2.3.2.40).
There is a guide DumaOS Optimal Settings Guide: Hybrid VPN - This guide will help you setup Hybrid VPN on your DumaOS... the ability to import virtually any typical VPN service provider OpenVPN configuration.
Nothing that stops you from hiding your a** from the ISP P2P or whatever monitoring.
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Re: XR500 Custom VPN?
So the mistake I was making was going to settings>advance settings>VPN
Instead of
Hybrid VPN>Set up>Advance settings
Stupid mistake on my end. Thanks.
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Per location ... talking of different VPN providers?
Not an active XRnnn user ... I guess only one can be loaded at a time. And I don't know of there is a killswitch function available stopping any other communication of the VPN provider is not workable.
@Netduma-Fraser @Netduma_Jack @Netduma_Luke please.
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Are you travelling with your router? Otherwise choose the provider location with the best location for your home/office location. Amazing these providers are still working on technology from stone-age Internet - nowadays it should not be difficult to provide the best IP address(es) based on the location the requests are coming from nowadays, and also based on the load of these VPN concentrator locations.
We can dispute that say you are located in France that using a French (or even any other EU based) location might be that smart from the legal prospective. Not every difficult to seizure a VPN providers infrastructure - where most are used to hide suspect criminal activities in a certain area anyway - and investigate. Without any user notifiying. (France was just a wild guess btw.)
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Not sure again @Netduma-Fraser @Netduma_Jack @Netduma_Luke ... wasn't one of the intention for Costom VPN having some policy routing so designated devices on the LAN (by IP, by IP range, ..) can use different VPN gateways?
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That's right - you just need to paste one openvpn file into the config file for the server you want to use. You can then decide which device(s) the VPN should apply to, as well as choose the applications you want to go through the VPN (or not).
Full guide here: http://support.netduma.com/en/support/solutions/articles/16000087492--dumaos-optimal-settings-guide-...
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