PIA VPN through rt-n66u steps

[zeroburn]

Hey everyone, great forum here have received lots of helpful tips.

I was wondering if someone could point in the right direction to setup my VPN through my router.

I have Merlin installed.

The VPN client is PIA

Is there a way also to make sure only certain ips go through the VPN service?

Thanks guys.

 

[sinshiva]

i assume you mean you subscribed to PIA vpn service. I imagine they have options for what kind of vpn you'd like to use; the asus routers are presently capable of being vpn clients to route your network traffic via PPTP or OpenVPN. PPTP is likely secure enough for your purposes and would be easier to setup, however it would be recommended that you switch to OpenVPN if at all possible. It sounds like the latest firmwares are capable of dropping ovpn profiles into the webadmin; i haven't needed to update so i wouldn't know for certain. This would make using their openvpn service a lot easier to setup, if they generate ovpn profiles for you.

In the router config, at Firewall > Network Services Filter you can enable a Lan to Wan whitelist. I haven't tested it's functionality myself, but that appears to be where to start.

 

[CaptainSTX]

Just a word of caution. When you set up a list of specific sites to be connected to using your VPN it doesn't always work as expected particularly if you are surfing web sites.

Depending on the web site you go to it could have multiple public IPs and the web pages on their site may take you to other IPs.

To minimize the risk you need to not use DNS servers, but instead type in a location's actual numerical IP address.

Another possibility is to look at setting up your network so only certain devices are connected using your VPN and other devices, the ones that don't handle sensitive or private data, connect directly to your ISP

My preference is to have two separate networks. One where all traffic to all sites is run through my VPN provider and the second non VPN network.