VPN on RT AC87U - help

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Hi all

When port forwarding there is a field for "source target"
What do I put in this?

Router is AC87U
 
Source and target and each end, source would be WAN and target would be local IP surely?

I'd advise if connecting to your internal network from the outside that you set up an OpenVPN server on the ASUS router instead, it's fairly straighforward.
 
Ok brilliant thanks

however I have used this port tester thing and it is not working

It says the ports are blocked

I am trying the 1723 port

What am I doing wrong?
 
Disabled router firewall to test

Still not working

I am trying to do windows 10 VPN from a client to home, hence port 1723 - anyone know if this is correct?
 
Ok

Basically I am trying to VPN from school to home where school are blocking quite a lot of websites

It would also be interesting to try steam in home streaming through VPN, as the internet is actually very quick but just a lot of sites are blocked

I am trying to use the built in Windows 10 VPN Server on my PC at home and the Windows 10 client on my laptop at school, however it just refuses to connect to my home PC

Teamviewer VPN does work but is not good for steam in home streaming it seems because it keeps saying PC is available/unavailable and is not a solid connection

The router also has a VPN server option but I've no idea how to connect to this
 
Okay, first of all I would not advise trying to circumvent school/work firewall rules.

If they are running a regular off the shelf firewalls then I think your only option is to use something like OpenVPN via port 443.

Set up an OpenVPN server on your ASUS router, set it to listen on port 443 and allow it in your routers Firewall. Once configured export the certificate and put it on OneDrive, USB etc.

At school on your laptop, install the OpenVPN client and provide it the certificate you exported above.

Obviously not knowing your school setup I don't know if their FW is clever enough to sniff out the OpenVPN traffic and block it.

I would have thought most firewalls would block common VPN and screen sharing software such as Teamviewer etc.
 
it seems the router DDNS isn't set up properly

Thanks for those instructions

I used to be able to type the router DDNS name into web browser and it would show the AI cloud
Now doesn't show this but it hasn't worked for a while.

Need to get this working as it seems OpenVPN needs the DDNS to be working
 
Hi,

Thanks for all the help. I got Open VPN working, however sites are still being blocked. Usually using tunnelbear or something the wireless icon changes to a VPN icon - however with Open VPN it stays as the normal wireless icon


Does this mean traffic is not being routed through the VPN?

Thanks
 
I take it you have right clicked on the OpenVPN icon and pressed connect? The icon status shows you IIRC if you are connected or not.
 
Yep, it has a green connection light notification thingy
It is definitely connected, but the normal wireless icon is still not the VPN type
 
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