NETGEAR Nighthawk X4 R7500v2 Router Manual PDF (Setup & Configuration Guide)

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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 aren’t

home.

Figure 14. VPN provides a secure tunnel between your home network and a remote computer

This type of VPN access is called a client-to-gateway tunnel. The computer is the client, and the router

is the gateway. To use the VPN feature, you must log in to the router and enable VPN, and you must

install and run VPN client software on the computer.

The router currently does not support iOS or Android VPN client software.

Note

VPN uses DDNS or a static IP address to connect with your 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 router supports these accounts: NETGEAR, No-IP,

and Dyn.

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

Router

You must specify the VPN service settings in the router before you can use a VPN connection.

To specify the VPN service:

1.

Launch a web browser from a computer or wireless device that is connected to the network.

2.

Type

http://www.routerlogin.net

.

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A login window opens.

3.

Enter the

router

user name and password.

The user name is

admin

. The default password is

password

. The user name and password are

case-sensitive.

The BASIC Home page displays.

4.

Select

ADVANCED > Advanced Setup > VPN Service

.

The VPN Service page displays.

5.

Select the

Enable VPN Service

check box.

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.

6.

To change the service type, scroll down and select the

TCP

radio button.

7.

To change the port, scroll down to the

Service Port

field, and type the port number that you want to

use.

8.

To specify when VPN clients use the VPN service, select a Clients will use this VPN connection to

access radio button:

•

Auto

. The

router

checks the Internet connection and makes its best effort to use the VPN service

only to access Internet sites and services that cannot be directly accessed without VPN.

•

All sites on the Internet & Home Network

. The VPN client uses the VPN to access all Internet

sites and services, including those that are accessible to you without using VPN.

If you are traveling outside of your home region, this setting can allow you to access sites that

have geographical restrictions in your home region. Because all Internet access goes through

VPN, this setting reduces the access speed for the Internet sites and services without geographic

restrictions that you access using VPN.

•

Home Network Only

.The VPN client can access only the home network through the VPN service.

9.

Click the

Apply

button.

Your changes are saved. VPN is enabled in the

router

but you must install and set up OpenVPN

software on your computer before you can use a VPN connection.

Install OpenVPN Software on Your Computer

You must install this software on each computer that you plan to use for VPN connections to your router.

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To install VPN client software:

1.

Visit

http://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

6.

Read the License Agreement and click the

I Agree

button.

7.

Leave the check boxes selected as shown, and click the

8.

To specify the destination folder, click the

Browse

button and select a destination folder.

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9.

Click the

Install

button.

The window displays the progress of the installation and then displays the final installation page.

10.

Click the

Finish

button.

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

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.

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Use a VPN Tunnel

After you set up the

router

to use VPN and install the OpenVPN application on your computer, you can

open a VPN tunnel from your computer to your

router

over the Internet.

For the VPN tunnel to work, the local LAN IP address of the remote

R7500

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

R7500

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

Change the LAN TCP/IP Settings

on page 128.

To open a VPN tunnel:

1.

Launch the OpenVPN application with administrator privileges.

The

OpenVPN

icon displays in the Windows taskbar.

You can create a shortcut to the VPN program, then use the shortcut to access the

settings and select the

run as administrator

check box.Then every time you use this

shortcut, OpenVPN automatically runs with administrator privileges.

Tip

2.

Right-click the

OpenVPN

icon.

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