Dlink DSR-500N with 2.02 firmware and OpenVPN

chad541121

I am totally new to VPN connections. I read alot of stuff and decided to buy a Dlink DSR-500N router because it had OPenVPN built into the firmware.
I am trying to setup a vpn connection for my salesmans laptop and also his iphone/Ipad. I cannot find any tutorials that walk through setting this up with the new 2.02 firmware.
Seems like im missing something simple but I dont know how to figure it out. Alot of the tutorials are saying setup openvpn on the server? I thought the DSR-500N was suppose to create the connection? I have read that I can use openvpn on the iphone to create the vpn connection then I can use remote desktop after that. Can someone walk me through getting this setup please? I currently have created all the certificates with Easy-RSA.

chad541121

I have created and uploaded the CA.crt, Server.crt, Server.key, and dh1024.pem files to the router.
The OpenVPN tab on the router allows me to set these items
mode to "server"
VPN network to 172.16.12.0
VPN netmask to 255.255.255.0
Port to 1194
Tunnel to UDP
AES-256
SHA1
Full Tunnel
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I don't understand where the server.ovpn file comes into play.

Here is my client.ovpn file

persist-tun
persist-key
cipher AES-256-CBC
auth SHA1
tls-client
client
remote 184.17.130.50 1194 udp
lport 0
verify-x509-name "Mysite.com" name
auth-user-pass
ns-cert-type server
verb 4
<ca>
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
</ca>
<cert>
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
</cert>
<key>
-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----
-----END PRIVATE KEY-----
</key>
<tls-auth>
-----BEGIN OpenVPN Static key V1-----
-----END OpenVPN Static key V1-----
</tls-auth>
key-direction 1

chad541121

My first question is, where does the server config file belong? What does the openvpn feature of the dsr-500n actually do? Is it suppose to accept incoming traffic and match the certificates? If so, I don't see where to add the different users that are allowed to use VPN. I also don't see how the incoming traffic is routed to my company's server. The router firmware is confusing.

Traffic

OpenVPN may appear a little daunting at first but if you read the documentation it will help you.

HOWTO: For OpenVPN Community Edition

chad541121

I tried to follow this tutorial, however I'm lost because the router has the openvpn feature and I don't understand where the server.ovpn would go.
What does the openvpn feature of the dlink router do? I can follow the tutorial and setup everything on the server. I am getting confused because the router is being setup as the openvpn server.

Traffic

Sorry, I don't provide support for DLink routers.

However,

chad541121 wroteI don't understand where the server.ovpn would go

if you are using openwrt it is possible to specify a custom config file (eg: /etc/openvpn/server1.conf) in the openwrt UCI (user configuration interface). Otherwise, you probably setup openvpn with the options DLink web interface offers you ..

I suspect the DLink stock firmware may be a little more limited than OpenWRT.