How to Setup OpenVPN on OPNsense Router

To find your VPN credentials log into the PureVPN member area. Click 👉 here to visit member area.

• Login to the Member area using your PureVPN registered email address and password.

• On subscriptions tab scroll down to be able to view your VPN credentials.

• You will be able to see and copy your VPN credentials.
• Note down your PureVPN username and click on Eye icon to make your password visible and use it in the manual configuration.

• Login to OPNsense panel using IP assigned.

• In your router’s web UI, navigate to System > Trust > Authorities and enter the CA2.cert into Certificate Data.

• Choose the VPN option from the panel OpenVPN and click on Client.

• Choose an OpenVPN server from our Server status page and make note of its hostname (this guide uses a German server as an example-., de2-auto-udp.ptoserver.com).
• Navigate to VPN > OpenVPN > Clients, click on the + button and enter the following configuration as follow:
  1. Disabled – Unchecked
  2. Description – Give it any name, i.e., PureVPN Germany
  3. Server Mode – Peer to Peer (SSL/TLS)
  4. Protocol – UDP or TCP
  5. Device mode – tun
  6. Interface – WAN
  7. Remote server – Purevpn’s server hostname, i.e., de2-auto-udp.ptoserver.com
  8. Port – 1194 (or 53, 80, 443, 2050 for UDP and 80, 443, 1443 for TCP. All ports are equally secure).

• Username and Password: Enter your VPN credentials. Here is how you can find your VPN credentials.
• TLS Authentication – check the Enable authentication of TLS packets option then copy and paste the contents of our wdc.key file.
• Peer Certificate Authority – CA2.
• Client Certificate – None (Username and Password required).
• Encryption algorithm – (AES-256-GCM & AES-256-CBC are also supported).
• Auth Digest Algorithm – SHA1 (160bit).
• Compression – Legacy – Disabled LZO algorithm (–comp-lzo no).

• Hit Save.

• Go to Connection Status to check your VPN status.