Netgear R7000 Nighthawk and OpenVPN Connect

[chrisboy68]

Hi,

Netgear states they specifically do not support IOS with the OpenVPN server on the R7000, however, I would like to know if anyone has got this working. I have taken the base conf and certs files the OpenVPN server generates and loaded in the OpenVPN Connect. Using my Ios7/Iphone, when I connect i get that dev tun is not supported. Removing this from the config/ovpn file, it just times out trying to connect.

Any suggestions or am I plan out of luck

Thank you,

Chris

[ansicore]

I asked the same question to netgear, amazon forum, and other places. No answer from anyone. Can't say I feel comfortable buying netgear routers or openvpn licenses in the near future. Are there any other vpn capable router which doesn't use openvpn?

[chrisboy68]

I know DD-WRT supported a few options. I had my iPhone working with VPN under DD-WRT. I may have to leave the netgear stock firmware.

Chris

[jamesyonan]

The iOS client supports "dev tun". It's "dev tap" that is not supported. This is an iOS limitation.

James

[StGeorgeA]

I've changed my .ovpn file to use tun and I now get the error: TUN_WETUP_FAILED tun_prop_error: one of ifconfig or ifconfig-ipv6 must be specified


.ovpn file:


client
dev tun
proto udp
remote *****.*****.com 8443
resolv-retry infinite
nobind
persist-key
persist-tun
ca ca.crt
cert client.crt
key client.key
cipher AES-128-CBC
comp-lzo
verb 5