User's Guide

TRENDnet User’s Guide

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Secure Socket Layer VPN (SSL) / OpenVPN

System > SSL VPN Setup

SSL VPN Server Setup

1. Log into your router management page (see “Access your router management page”

on page 7).

2. Click on System and click on SSL VPN Server Setup.

3. For the Mode, select Enable.

4. Click Save at the bottom.

5. Wait the router to generate a new OpenVPN key. This may take up to 2 minutes.

Note: You may receive a notification if Dynamic DNS is not configured on your router. If

you are using VPN, it is not required however, strongly recommended to setup the

Dynamic DNS feature on your router to prevent any issues with VPN connectivity if

your public (WAN) Internet IP address dynamically changes.

6. Then click Reboot at the top right to commit the changes.

7. Next to Client configuration files, click Export to download the configuration files for

the VPN client computer.

Note: Please do not change the filename for Windows installation. If installing in Linux,

the .ovpn extension must be changed to .conf.

Folder paths for SSL VPN client configuration files:

Windows: C:\Program Files\OpenVPN\config

Linux: /etc/openvpn

Below is a reference of the additional SSL VPN settings if you choose to make other

configuration changes to these sections.

Note: Changing any settings will require you to export a new client configuration file.

• OpenVPN Protocol – Used to change the default protocol. UDP or TCP.

• Port – Used to change the default SSL VPN server port number.

• Subnet– Used to change the default IP address subnet and IP address range to

distribute to SSL VPN clients.

• Subnet Mask– Used to change the default IP subnet mask to distribute to SSL

VPN clients.