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12.
Use VPN to Access Your Network
This chapter includes the following sections:
•
Set Up a VPN Connection
•
Specify VPN Service in the Router
•
Install OpenVPN Software on Your Computer
•
Use VPN to Access the Router’s USB Drive 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 aren’t home.
Secure
remote access
Internet
Open VPN
Client
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.
Note:
The router currently does not support iOS and Android VPN client
software.
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 www.no-ip.com, www.no-ip.com, and www.DynDNS.org.
If your Internet service provider (ISP) has 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.
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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 an Internet browser from a computer or wireless device that is connected to the
network.
2.
Type
or
.
A login screen displays.
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 screen displays.
4.
Select
ADVANCED > Advanced Setup > VPN Service
.
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.
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.
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.
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The OpenVPN Setup Wizard displays:
5.
Click the
Next
button.
6.
Read the License Agreement and click the
I Agree
button.
The Choose Components screen displays:
7.
Leave the check boxes selected as shown, and click the
Next
button.
8.
To specify the destination folder, click the
Browse
button and select a destination folder.
The following screen displays:
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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.
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.
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 R7000 must have a
different LAN IP scheme than 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 R7000 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
98.

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