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Turning on VPN access to Orbi remotely
I have the following situation:
I had an old Orbi RBR50 set up back in my home country with DDNS and VPN enabled and configured, allowing me to connect to my home network from wherever.
After I moved I bought a new Orbi and for continuity sake I moved the DDNS name from mu old Orbi to the new one. Unfortunately I did not realize this would disable the VPN access on my old Orbi. I can still access it via the Netgear Orbi app remotely though.
so now I’m stuck, I can’t turn on the DDNS and VPN on my old Orbi via the app unfortunately and I can’t connect via vpn to do it via the web interface. Is there any way around it? Can I access the Orbi web interface piggy backing on the Orbi app?
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Internet port.If OpenVPN was running on the old Orbi, it should still be enabled. If you can determine the current public IP address of the old Orbi router*, you could edit the OpenVPN client configuration file to use the actual IP address rather than the DDNS name. After connecting, you could modify the DDNS entry on the old Orbi so that changes in the public IP address will be tracked.
* Actually, if the Orbi 'app' still connects to the old Orbi, then the public IP address can be found on the Router Settings,, Details page
I tried this already and the connection is not getting established so my assumption is that the VPN got turned off automatically.
Oh, geez. I would not expect the Orbi to spontaneously disable OpenVPN. Mine has persisted through several firmware updates. Is there someone who can access the Orbi web interface locally to bring up the OpenVPN page and see if is remains enabled?
