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So I 've been trying to setup Open-Vpn on my DD-Wrt router and what a pain


G+_Carlos Battousai
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So I've been trying to setup Open-Vpn on my DD-Wrt router and what a pain. There's an old guide on How to Geeks,but it's so out of date! Might be a good project for the show.

 

In the meanwhile if anyone know how to get Easy-RSA to make the cert that'd be awesome. (I'm pretty sure most of this guide is useful it's the RSA part that's missing sets somewhere)

http://www.howtogeek.com/64433/how-to-install-and-configure-openvpn-on-your-dd-wrt-router/

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I run OpenVPN on my pfSense box at home.  The forums there had a great tutorial on setting it up ( the most complicated part for me was setting up the certificates).  Be aware that many workplaces block default openvpn traffic.  If your workplace does, you may want to look into using a different port than the default  (generally a good idea anyway).

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The basic way the certs work is this: Somewhere is an Certificate Authority certificate (I created my own, since its not going to be publicly available, but usually someone like DigiCert for publicly used servers) and it will be used to create a Server cert for the OpenVPN server (known as signing).  From this, a cert for each end user can be signed). These work to prove that the connecting user and VPN server are who they say they are.  I'm terrible at explaining things, but this may help explain how it works and what  configured example looks like:  https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/OpenVPN_Remote_Access_Server

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