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What we've been talking about here is having your own OpenVPN server running on your Merlin router. Connecting to a commercial OpenVPN provider's server as a client has a different (much smaller) set of issues. As an OpenVPN client you want to be sure that the server you're connecting to is in...

Everything seems to be working great, and it's been very quiet up in the more rarefied air of "unassigned" ports. AsusWRT- Merlin is super convenient for generating matching OpenVPN client files, but I actually wanted to have multiple unique clients and a GUI to manage the lot. I'm using xca...

I'm not so sure that you've actually been hacked, but rather the hackers have been knocking right at the door. I recently updated an RT-AC68U on a release from last year to 384.6 and some of those same UNDEF entries showed up immediately. None were showing before the upgrade. Looking in the...

Actually, since I wrote this post last month, I have figured out how to do this. As you said outgoing connections work fine, and that's the basis of my original post and my solution. Probably the best way to describe this is as a "Reverse VPN", where a router-based OpenVPN client on a cellular...

It seems like a factory reset would be in order at this point. You could also try flashing back to stock firmware to verify that you can save a CA there. Either way, one or more factory resets wouldn't hurt.

Just took a look at a sample Torguard .ovpn file and it looks like this: client dev tun remote chi.central.usa.torguardvpnaccess.com 443 udp remote chi.central.usa.torguardvpnaccess.com 443 tcp resolv-retry infinite nobind persist-key persist-tun setenv CLIENT_CERT 0 <ca> -----BEGIN...

Does the OpenVPN config, as generated by Torguard, work if you load it into a standalone PC client? You can download and install one from here: https://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/downloads.html If it doesn't work in a standalone client it won't work in AsusWRT-Merlin.

The short version of the story is that I have an OpenVPN client/server setup where the client is on cellular Internet (private IP) and the server has a public IP. I want to port forward from the OpenVPN server router using it's public IP to the client. The setup seems solid in that I can ping...

In case you missed it, this thread and the one you used for setting up OpenVPN, are both using ROOter (which is a special build of OpenWRT/LEDE oriented towards cellular modem users). I take it you're using vanilla OpenWRT/LEDE, rather than ROOter. The instructions would be mostly the same...

Most of the instructions in these posts of mine are no longer required with the latest version of ROOter. I worked with the guys there to get the fixes and "recipes" for popular VPN services incorporated into the release. That being said, given that the process starts but quickly ends, you're...

I have a configuration where I have an RT-AC3100 as a primary router, with two additional outdoor routers connected to the WAN port of the AC3100. The two WAN routers are both PoE devices on a single Ethernet cable. One of the WAN routers is a Ubiquiti NanoStation operating in "Station" mode...

This is standard behavior in Windows File Explorer. Any network file shares you access that aren't found by Windows network browsing (like those on different subnets), e.g. those you access over the VPN by "\\x.x.x.x" will temporarily continue to show in Windows Explorer -- at least for that...

Maybe another (better) way to say it is: On your OpenVPN client computer, go to Windows File Explorer and enter "\\192.168.1.181" up at the top of the screen where your current file path is showing.

If your NAS has an http:// webpage you're trying to access. Open your favorite browser and type "http://192.168.1.181" or "http://192.168.1.181/ui" if that doesn't work. I'm guessing you're seeing this page because you started in Windows File Explorer and forgot to type the "\\" before the IP.

In Windows File Explorer, on the OpenVPN client, did you type "\\192.168.1.181"? Without the quotes of course...