I?ve recently tried to get my DM800HD clone to go behind a VPN. I started by reading around on the internet and stumbled upon the use of OpenVPN. After some digging around, I found that my existing VPN provider already provides *.ovpn files, so I got to work with some guides I found online.
FYI, I have tested my connection to my VPN and can confirm that it is active and working through other devices.
What I did:1. I installed openvpn onto my box using the following command which was successful: opkg install openvpn
2. I then created my files as per the above (the method in the first post's original part didn?t connect at all, I had to go by the above comment which seemed to give back no login error, indicating some form of success)
a. Created a *.crt file using the info in the *.ovpn file which included and was between the <ca></ca> tags
b. Created a login.txt file which contains only 2 lines
i. Username
ii. Password
c. Created a *.conf file which contained all of the following (server address masked):
Code:
client
dev tun
proto udp
route-delay 2
resolv-retry infinite
nobind
persist-key
persist-tun
ca /etc/openvpn/ca.crt
log /etc/openvpn/openvpn.log
auth-user-pass /etc/openvpn/login.txt
verb 3
remote [VPN Server address] 443
3. put all the above files into /etc/openvpn
4. Opened up a telnet connection via putty (also tried via DCC but same outcome)
5. Executed the following command to start open vpn with the config files: /etc/init.d/openvpn start
6. Observed the following message (uk is the name of the *.conf file): Starting openvpn: uk.
7. Waited a while
8. Ran the following command to see if my IP address was that of the VPN server:
Code:
wget -q -O - http://ip.serdit.ro | grep "IP address is"
a. I got a result back which showed that my IP address hadn?t changed
Questions:1. How can I see what is happening at step 5 when I executed the openvpn program?
Btw:1. I don?t like the shell on my dreambox, can I upgrade it?
2. Would I need better specs on my box to support a better shell?
Thanks in advance all
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