This is a blog mostly about techie things, what I am doing to my apartment network on the cheap, IOT, 3D Printing, Raspberry Pis, Arduinos, ESP32, ESP8266, Home Automation, Personal Weather Stations, Things That Go Bump in the Night, and some side issues that need discussing. Remember, sometimes the journey to an end is as much fun as the goal achieved!
Thursday, June 20, 2019
Network General - added an EdgeRouter X as an OpenVPN server
I had attempted to use one of the GL-iNet routers (AR800M) to act as an OpenVPN server on my network. I setup one of the vlans from the Main Router and had a whole lot of problems with the setup. I discovered that the EdgeRouter-X (ER-X) was only $65 from MicroCenter and a lot of people indicated that is was an easy setup for OpenVPN. I decided that what I would do was setup a vlan from the Cisco router with one of my unused vlans that flows throughout the network. So I designated one of my many vlans to be an “OpenVPN passthrough”. This will be similar in concept to the No-Mans Land vlan that I have been using for some time. The “OpenVPN passthrough” vlan will be setup so that you cannot change the Cisco router and you cannot access any other vlan. I will also punch some ports through the Cisco router to the Wan port of the ER-X. The OpenVPN setup is shown at https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/115015971688-EdgeRouter-OpenVPN-Server. I have found this to be a very easy setup. I also generated some additional OpenVPN client cents to use with my cell phones, iPads, and laptops.
