yellowshed
Hi,
New to this forum. I was hoping for some help. I would like to try and configure OpenVPN to allow remote login to my home network. I have a BT Infinity ISP accout and have one of their hubs. However, I only use it to bridge the traffic to my Gargoyle router (running on a TPLink 1043ND). Gargoyle has an OpenVPN server which I can configure, but the thing is, I don't know how to configure it.
The BT is on 192.168.0.254 (DHCP turned off, static IPs only) and the fixed IP on the WAN side of Gargoyle is 192.168.0.1 and it's configured to be the gateway. Then I have Gargoyle serve DHCP addresses plus a few fixed IPs.
I can see that I have a fixed IP address from BT (not guaranteed, but I'm happy to change it in the config if needed).
So do I need to set up port forwarding on the BT hub to forward the openvpn port to the router, and what do I set the remote ip address to be? The one I see as my internet IP address from BT?
All help gratefully appreciated, if this is possible...
If not, is there a configuration with the BT hub that is possible, or any way to make the Gargoyle router the direct connection to the white box the other side of the BT hub?
Thanks,
YellowShed
yellowshed
Thanks for the help.
I googled and found out that I don't need to put the router behind the BT hub - I now have the gargolye router directly to the openreach box. Now, the OpenVPN config page from gargoyle offers to use my WAN IP. I have since signed up for a dynamic dns and have used that, so I'm all sorted now and a happy bunny.
Thanks for listening.
YellowShed
