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Use VPN to Access Your Network
You can use OpenVPN software to remotely access your modem router using virtual private
networking (VPN). This chapter explains how to set up and use VPN access.
This chapter includes the following sections:
•
Set Up a VPN Connection
•
Use VPN to Access the Modem Router’s USB Device and Media
•
Use VPN to Access Your Internet Service at Home
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Set Up a VPN Connection
A virtual private network (VPN) lets you use the Internet to securely access your network
when you are not home. This type of VPN access is called a client-to-gateway tunnel. The
computer is the client, and the modem router is the gateway. To use the VPN feature, you
must log in to the modem router and enable VPN, and you must install and run VPN client
software on the computer.
Note:
The modem router does not support iOS or Android VPN client software.
VPN uses DDNS or a static IP address to connect with your modem router.
To use a DDNS service, register for an account with a host name (sometimes called a
domain name). You use the host name to access your network. The modem router supports
these accounts: NETGEAR, No-IP, and Dyn. See
Set Up and Manage Dynamic DNS
on
page
176.
If your Internet service provider (ISP) assigned a static WAN IP address (such as 50.196.x.x
or 10.x.x.x) that never changes to your Internet account, the VPN can use that IP address to
connect to your home network.
Specify VPN Service in the Modem Router
You must specify the VPN service settings in the modem router before you can use a VPN
connection.
To specify the VPN service:
1.
Launch an Internet browser from a computer or WiFi device that is connected to the
network.
2.
Type
.
A login screen displays.
3.
Enter the modem router user name and password.
The user name is
admin
. The default password is
password
. The user name and
password are case-sensitive.
4.
Click the
OK
button.
The BASIC Home screen displays.
5.
Select
ADVANCED > Advanced Setup > VPN Service
.
The VPN Service screen displays.
6.
Select the
Enable VPN Service
check box.
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By default, the VPN uses the UDP service type and uses port 12974. If you want to
customize the service type and port, NETGEAR recommends that you change these
settings before you install the OpenVPN software.
7.
To change the service type, scroll down and select the
TCP
radio button.
8.
To change the port, scroll down to the
Service Port
field, and type the port number that you
want to use.
Note:
For information about configuring the type of access, see
Use VPN to
Access Your Internet Service at Home
on page
257.
9.
Click the
Apply
button.
Your changes are saved. VPN is enabled in the modem router, but you must install and
set up OpenVPN software on your computer before you can use a VPN connection (see
Install OpenVPN Software on Your Computer
on page
253).
Install OpenVPN Software on Your Computer
You must install this software on each computer that you plan to use for VPN connections to
your modem router.
To install VPN client software:
1.
Visit
openvpn.net/index.php/download/community-downloads.html
.
2.
In the Windows Installer section of the screen, double-click the
openVPN-install-xxx.exe
link.
3.
Download the file.
4.
To install the Open VPN software on your computer, click the
openVPN-install-xxx.exe
file.
5.
Click the
Next
button.
6.
Read the License Agreement and click the
I Agree
button.
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7.
Leave the check boxes selected as shown in the previous figure, and click the
Next
button.
8.
To specify the destination folder, click the
Browse
button, select a destination folder, and
click the
Next
button.
9.
Click the
Install
button.
The screen displays the progress of the installation and then displays the final installation
screen.
10.
Click the
Finish
button.
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11.
Unzip the configuration files that you downloaded and copy them to the folder where the
VPN client is installed on your device.
For a client device with Windows 64-bit system, the VPN client is installed at
C:\Program files\OpenVPN\config\
by default.
12.
For a client device with Windows, modify the VPN interface name to
NETGEAR-VPN
:
a.
In Windows, select
Start > Control Panel > Network and Internet > Network
Connections
.
b.
In the local area connection list, find the local area connection with the device name
TAP-Windows Adapter
.
c.
Select the local area connection and change its name (not its device name) to
NETGEAR-VPN
.
If you do not change the VPN interface name, the VPN tunnel connection will fail.
Use a VPN Tunnel
After you set up the modem router to use VPN and install the OpenVPN application on your
computer, you can open a VPN tunnel from your computer to your modem router over the
Internet.
For the VPN tunnel to work, the local LAN IP address of the remote router must use a
different LAN IP scheme from that of the local LAN where your VPN client computer is
connected. If both networks use the same LAN IP scheme, when the VPN tunnel is
established, you cannot access your home router or your home network with the OpenVPN
software.
The default LAN IP address scheme for the modem router is 192.x.x.x. The most common IP
schemes are 192.x.x.x, 172.x.x.x, and 10.x.x.x. If you experience a conflict, change the IP
scheme either for your home network or for the network with the client VPN computer. For
information about changing these settings, see
Manage the Modem Router’s LAN IP
Address Settings
on page
208.
To open a VPN tunnel:
1.
Launch the OpenVPN application with administrator privileges.

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