OpenWRT and PIA

I use an OpenWRT travel router to deal with public WiFi access security and geolocation concerns. I have written extensively prior and ran into an issue with the latest OpenWRT release. For those struggling with PIA using the luci-app-openvpn please see the below for a working config you can place in /etc/config/openvpn. Grab the new PIA Strong crypto files here: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/openvpn/openvpn-strong.zip vi /etc/config/openvpn Paste this block of text and change the hostname as needed config openvpn 'piaEU'                option dev 'tun'                option nobind '1'                option verb '3'                option fast_io '1'                option persist_tun '1'                option persist_key '1'                option client '1'                option proto 'udp'                option tls_client '1'                option remote_cert_tls 'server'                option cipher 'aes-256-cbc'                option auth 'sha256'                option ca '/etc/config/ca.rsa.4096.crt'                option keepalive '10 120'                list remote 'nl.privateinternetaccess.com'                option comp_lzo 'adaptive'                option auth_user_pass '/etc/openvpn/authuser'                option resolv_retry 'infinite'                option reneg_sec '0'                option disable_occ '1'                option enabled '1'                 option crl_verify '/etc/config/crl.rsa.4096.pem'                option port '1197' The port is a biggie. Make sure it is the correct one for the new secure settings! ...

August 28, 2016 · 2 min · Nick

OpenVPN Install Ubuntu 9.10

A good buddy of mine, Trevor, had mentioned wanting to bridge his Brother‘s and his networks. Having done an OpenVPN install many moons ago it had resonated with the “I need to do that again” list in my head. When the N900 arrived it seemed like the perfect opportunity to have the n900 use a VPN tunnel to secure traffic while on open AP. Here is my config: ...

February 27, 2010 · 5 min · Nick