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Morning All

Apologies if this is a duplicate post, my query is a strange one.

Basically we have a product that we want to use with a 4g router, configured with OpenVPN to talk to one of our hosted servers. My Query is can we connect multiple 4g routers using OpenVPN clients on each router to connect to 1 single hosted server?

Thanks

Yes that's possible.
The problem is often configure-ability and outdated firmware/OpenVPN version on such devices.
Or, maybe OpenVPN can run on your product...

I followed these steps for my router, hope these steps help you!
Step1:
1. Set up OpenVPN Server on Your Router.
2. Go to Advanced > VPN Server > OpenVPN, and select Enable VPN Server.
3. Select the Service Type (communication protocol) for OpenVPN Server: UDP, TCP.
4. Enter a VPN Service Port to which a VPN device connects, and the port number should be between 1024 and 65535.
5. In the VPN Subnet/Netmask fields, enter the range of IP addresses that can be leased to the device by the OpenVPN server.
6. Select your Client Access type. Select Home Network Only if you only want the remote device to access your home network; select Internet and Home Network if you also want the remote device to access the internet through the VPN Server.
7. Click Save.
8. Click Generate to get a new certificate.
Note: If you have already generated one, please skip this step, or click Generate to update the certificate
9. Click Export to save the OpenVPN configuration file which will be used by the remote device to access your router.

Step 2. Configure OpenVPN Connection on Your Remote Device
1. Download the OpenVPN software, and install it on your device where you want to run the OpenVPN client utility.
2. After the installation, copy the file exported from your router to the OpenVPN client utility’s “config” folder (for example, C:\Program Files\OpenVPN\config on Windows). The path depends on where the OpenVPN client utility is installed.
3. Run the OpenVPN client utility and connect it to OpenVPN Server.

Regards,
Charles

Thanks Charles, would we not need to install Open VPN server on the hosted server we are connecting to?

thanks

Chris

Start here:
https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/HOWTO