I'm trying to use OpenVPN with and OpenWRT router. Full disclosure - I'm not a Networking guru and I honestly only understand about 1/4 of the OpenWRT configuration properties.
What I hope to accomplish is to have my router act as a VPN server where, for all intents and purposes, the client acts as a device on the LAN interface. Specifically, the two goals are:
- To be able to send Wake On Lan packets to my Windows desktop remotely. Alternatively, to be able to hit 192.168.1.1 through the browser and use LuCI to send the WOL packet.
- To remotely connect to my Windows Desktop (Preferably via Windows Remote Desktop but I'll take VNC if it significantly simplifies things)
Here's what I currently have configured:
- Dynamic DNS set up so that I can hit my router from outside by name
- Static IP address for the Windows Desktop set to
192.168.1.51
. I'm totally happy to adjust the static IP value as I have no idea what it should be. - Both ethernet and wifi are set up under the
lan
interface. - A Firewall Traffic forwarding rule:
Any traffic; From any host in vpn; To IP 192.168.1.51, port 3389 in lan: Accept Forward
Some additional things I've tried:
- Followed (somewhat blindly) the instructions on https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/vpn.openvpn for an OpenVPN server.
- Doing so lets me connect to the VPN, but Tunnelblick warns that there is no change in external IP address. I am unable to ping either
192.168.1.1
or192.168.1.51
I'm not really sure where to go next.