Difficulty creating unified .ovpn file from certs
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2015 3:22 am
Netgear recently released a firmware update with smartphone (iOS & Android) support for the built in OpenVPN server. I was able to successfully download and install the .ovpn, ca, client and key certs from my router, onto my iOS devices via the iTunes app file transfer.
What I’ve been unsuccessful with, however, is creating a unified .ovpn file that contains the three certs embedded directly in the .ovpn text. Netgear even provides some guidance on this in the form of a KB article (https://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/deta ... ZDbQ%3D%3D), which I used in addition to the OpenVPN iOS FAQ. But when I transfer the unified .ovpn file to the iOS devices, I’m getting a PolarSSL error regarding certificate verification (validation?) failure. Being new to OpenVPN, I’m not sure what this means, but it would almost sound as though OpenVPN is doing some check of my ca.crt against a database of known trusted certificate authorities.
Can anyone shed some light on this for me? Thank you very much.
What I’ve been unsuccessful with, however, is creating a unified .ovpn file that contains the three certs embedded directly in the .ovpn text. Netgear even provides some guidance on this in the form of a KB article (https://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/deta ... ZDbQ%3D%3D), which I used in addition to the OpenVPN iOS FAQ. But when I transfer the unified .ovpn file to the iOS devices, I’m getting a PolarSSL error regarding certificate verification (validation?) failure. Being new to OpenVPN, I’m not sure what this means, but it would almost sound as though OpenVPN is doing some check of my ca.crt against a database of known trusted certificate authorities.
Can anyone shed some light on this for me? Thank you very much.