Linksys E3000 Router, OpenVPN & DD-WRT firmware.

SparrowHawk

Hi All,

I'm trying to get OpenVPN working with a service from https://www.vpntunnel.se/, a Linksys E3000 Router and DD-WRT.

The screenshots they provide are for an earlier version of DD-WRT, than the version I have.

Has anyone experience of getting these three pieces to work together sucessfully? If so, can you provide some guidance please?

I have googled, & come across some other scenarios, but none are working for this situation.

Thanks in Advance,

SH

jor el

Moved to Nets & Comms.

SparrowHawk

...Bump

Anyone?

Lenny

jor el wrote: »

Moved to Nets & Comms.

Tech-> net & comms-> wireless would be a better forum

Knasher

It might help if you posted a link to the screenshots you are working from as well as a description of where you are getting stuck.

SparrowHawk

@Knasher - that's a fair point :-)

The image from VPNTunnell instructions is linked here
http://s13.postimage.org/xhg60si93/vpn1.jpg.

The image of the options in my version of DD-WRT is here
http://s18.postimage.org/fk0huds3t/vpn2.jpg.

The options are different & I do not know which way to go. I have also attached the instruction pdf. Any help/ guidance would be appreciated.

Knasher

Okay so you can disable the openvpn server as you don't use that. Now I'm not certain about everything, so try filling in these obvious ones first, see if it works and we can go from there. I'm going to skip over options I'm not sure about so leave them how they are by default. In the openvpn client part from the top:
Server IP/Name: melissa.vpntunnel.se
Port: 1194
Tunnel Device: tap
Tunnel Protocol: udp
LZO Compression: yes
NAT: enabled
Additional Config:
push "dhcp-option DNS 80.67.0.2"
push "dhcp-option DNS 91.213.246.2"
auth-user-pass /tmp/passwd.txt
CA Cert:
<<Whatever your ca cert is>>

Save and then go to the administration>commands section and put
echo USERNAME >> /tmp/passwd.txt
echo PASSWORD >> /tmp/passwd.txt
And save as startup, restart the router and hopefully the interface will come up. It think that should be it, but admittedly it is pretty complicated so let me know how it goes.

SparrowHawk

Hi Knasher,

followed instuctions - no joy. The IP being reported via my router ( & when I visit the VPNTunnel website is my ISP's assigned IP, not the VPN Tunnel IP.

If you have more suggestions, please let me know.

Thanks again,

SH

Knasher

That is fine for now, you aren't currently trying to route anything through the VPN so everything is still going over your WAN connection. The important question now is if the connection is actually coming up or not. There may be a way to see in the router interface, but as I've never used a VPN I'm not 100% sure. If you have ssh access enabled, try sshing into it and running ifconfig to see if the tap interface is there, and if so then it should be relatively simple to figure out how to get the routing part right.

SparrowHawk

Hi Knasher,

Thanks for your help on this issue. I have also been trying with VPNTunnell support, but to no avail. Due to the poor support I have gone & tried BlackVPN from this thread http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056066624&page=30. Following their very concise instructions, I am up & running

Thanks again Knasher (hope you didn't spend too much time on it).

Knasher

Glad to hear you got it sorted.