Hello everyone,
I’m new to this forum and hoping you’d be able to help me. I’m looking to create a VPN on my Asus RT-AC88U router. I have updated the firmware to Merlin version 386.7. This post may be a little drawn out and I apologize in advance.
Here is what I’m trying to accomplish. I want to be able start a VPN server within the Asus router (VPN Server tab) but only have two out of all of the devices connected to my router on that VPN. One device is my Emby server which is located on my TrueNAS NAS. Both the Emby and TrueNAS server have their own IP address on my LAN. The other is another PC. My current network connection is as follows. FIOS Router to my Asus router and all peripherals connected to the Asus router. I understand I will need to port forward a port in the FIOS router to my Asus router.
Here is what I did. I clicked on the VPN Server tab in the router’s interface and set it up. I had watched some Youtube videos about the “Redirect Internet Traffic” setting and how I can select “Policy Rules.” I figured I would just set the PC, NAS and Emby server to be on the VPN while all other traffic gets routed through my WAN. Unfortunately, that setting is only available on the VPN Clients tab. Essentially, I wanted to create a VPN on the router (VPN Client tab) using the OpenVPN settings. I wanted to just have three IP addresses behind that VPN and be able to remotely access the VPN via the OpenVPN client app on my phone, Firestick and PC so that I can access the Emby server and the other PC. Is this possible with a VPN server created by the router itself?
I do understand that I can setup a VPN client (VPN Client tab) on the router using clients such as ExpressVPN, which I have an account for and I can set the Policy Rules there to only have the desired devices on the VPN. If I did this, would I be able to connect to that same VPN remotely through an app and access the devices on the VPN? If so, how?
Thanks for reading and hoping to get an understanding of this so I can configure the VPN to yield what I need.
Chris
I’m new to this forum and hoping you’d be able to help me. I’m looking to create a VPN on my Asus RT-AC88U router. I have updated the firmware to Merlin version 386.7. This post may be a little drawn out and I apologize in advance.
Here is what I’m trying to accomplish. I want to be able start a VPN server within the Asus router (VPN Server tab) but only have two out of all of the devices connected to my router on that VPN. One device is my Emby server which is located on my TrueNAS NAS. Both the Emby and TrueNAS server have their own IP address on my LAN. The other is another PC. My current network connection is as follows. FIOS Router to my Asus router and all peripherals connected to the Asus router. I understand I will need to port forward a port in the FIOS router to my Asus router.
Here is what I did. I clicked on the VPN Server tab in the router’s interface and set it up. I had watched some Youtube videos about the “Redirect Internet Traffic” setting and how I can select “Policy Rules.” I figured I would just set the PC, NAS and Emby server to be on the VPN while all other traffic gets routed through my WAN. Unfortunately, that setting is only available on the VPN Clients tab. Essentially, I wanted to create a VPN on the router (VPN Client tab) using the OpenVPN settings. I wanted to just have three IP addresses behind that VPN and be able to remotely access the VPN via the OpenVPN client app on my phone, Firestick and PC so that I can access the Emby server and the other PC. Is this possible with a VPN server created by the router itself?
I do understand that I can setup a VPN client (VPN Client tab) on the router using clients such as ExpressVPN, which I have an account for and I can set the Policy Rules there to only have the desired devices on the VPN. If I did this, would I be able to connect to that same VPN remotely through an app and access the devices on the VPN? If so, how?
Thanks for reading and hoping to get an understanding of this so I can configure the VPN to yield what I need.
Chris