Originally Posted by rrwright

Under the "Administration" tab, go to "Commands". Put in something like the following and click "Save Startup":

You will of course put your own information in there for the public key, private key, CA certificate, and Diffie-Hellman parameters in place of the "....................". Just cut and paste out of your cert/key files and past the text in. You will also need to change any of the particulars in that config file to fit your own setup--things like setting your own IPs/netmask in the "server-bridge" section and whatever. The "172.31.1.1" address refers to my router throughout. You can also add and delete other options if you want.

If you're paying attention, this method echos all the important information (certificates, keys, config files) into new files each time the router boots. This is because there is no good place to save the actual files on the router--no persistent memory that's accessible. The last little bit about creating a symlink and running your VPN process from the symlink is to address a problem that DD-WRT has (or used to have?) where the process would mysteriously hang.

Then after you've done that, you need to configure the router's firewall to accept packets on port 1194 (unless you changed the port for some reason, of course). Put the following into the same box on that page (now empty) and click "Save Firewall":


After that, you're done. Reboot the router and you should have a live OpenVPN server. If you don't know how to create certificate/key pairs, CA certs/keys or DH params, then read the man page for openssl. You can even install openssl on your N800 and do all this without a full-size computer. But if you have a desktop handy, there are good programs for managing your Certificate Authorities, as that can get messy if you have more than just a few clients connecting.

Also, keep in mind that the "redirect-gateway def1" option is something that goes in the client config file, not on the server side. The server doesn't care if you're routing your internet traffic through it or not--at least as far as the openvpn config file goes.

Alright, to forstall another question asking for it, here's an example client config file that I have on my N800:


Ok, that's all for now. I hope it all works for you.


Ryan Wright

Originally Posted by Tu13es

Hm, so when I run openvpn --config n800remote.ovpn, it just hangs. Nothing happens.

Any ideas?

Originally Posted by psb777

OpenVPN on N800

I downloaded the .deb file from http://www.rahkonen.org/openvpn.html but it will not install. dpkg -i reports that the architecture is wrong.

There is no N800 version and elsewhere I am told the 770 version installs.

What now?

Originally Posted by rrwright

What does your log say? probably in /var/log/openvpn.log or something. (You do specify a log location in your config file, right?

Originally Posted by Tu13es

http://www.rubens.org/n800/openvpn_2...emo2_armel.deb