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VPN will it solve my problem?

colporteur

I have an Archer AX11000 router that can support a VPN. I need to provide credentials to a VPN server to complete the configuration. I recall using VPN's at work. The VPN enabled me to remote into the company network from the Internet. I would like to VPN into my home network.

I've long since retired and don't have access to the network brains that made it work at the company. I would buy them a coffee and float the questions. To access the company network we had a dongle that generated a code along with a username and password to use on the VPN concentrator. If all the magic worked my laptop at home was sitting on the company network.

I'm with hand-in-hand asking the brains in the E14 Community this network question. Does the Archer router VPN provide this same access? I would need to connect the router to a service like NordVPN. Once that is done can I use the VPN to get into my home network or would that require some other networking device?

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  • Since my last post I've been in VPN purgatory. The procedure in the router manual is not complete. As you read posts of a search of why it doesn't work, you discover a number of changes that need to be done to the OpenVPn file generated at the router. I have discovered Dynamic DNS is a must if you are using Musk's Starlink constellation. The IP changes at the same rate as a toilet seat goes up and down at a mixed party.  The VPN still doesn't work on MS or Ubuntu Linux O/S.

    I did invest in PiVPN and got OpenVPN to work from a Windows client. I was hoping I could get the AX11000 router VPN to work so I could avoid hanging another device off the network but that hope is fading fast. I have one more attempt to make with the router and then I will pickup where I left off with the PiVPN. 

  • in reply to colporteur

    Another option if you're behind CGNAT or have a constantly changing IP, is to rent a super cheap VPS, and run the OpenVPN server on that, and connect to it from your home router. You can "publish" routes to your home network even when connecting as a client, so any other device that connects to the server will be able to access your home network.

    See this for a more detailed description:
    wiki.archlinux.org/.../OpenVPN

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