This article will guide you through the steps involved in setting up PureVPN OpenVPN on an Advanced Tomato firmware router. We have used the Netgear R7000 router flashed with the latest Advanced Tomato firmware version 3.5 to prepare this article:
- Log in to the router control panel by entering the router’s default IP address 192.168.1.1 in the address bar of your preferred browser. (If you have changed your router’s default IP address, enter that in your browser tab instead). Enter the admin name and password for your router, then click Sign In.
- In order to configure OpenVPN on Adv. Tomato, first download the required OpenVPN Files from this link.
- Now go to the VPN tab and select the OpenVPN Client option.
- Now configure your OpenVPN client as shown below.
- Under basic tab
- Start with WAN: Check
- Interface Type: TUN
- Protocol: Choose either UDP or TCP and keep it in mind as this will be important later on
- Server Address/Port: Enter your desired location’s OpenVPN address. You can get your desired server address from this link.
- Enter port number 80 for TCP or port number 53 for UDP.
- Firewall: Automatic
- Authentication Mode: TLS
- Enter your PureVPN credentials. Here is how you can find your VPN credentials.
- Extra HMAC authorization (tls-auth): Outgoing(1)
- Create NAT on tunnel: Check
- Click the Save button.
- Under Advanced Tab:
- Redirect Internet Traffic: Checked.
- Accept DNS configuration: Relaxed.
- Encryption Cipher: AES-256-CBC.
- Compression: Adaptive.
- TLS Renegotiation Time: -1
- Connection retry: 30
- Click the Save button.
- Under Keys Tab:
- For Static Key: Copy and paste all the content from the Wdc.key file you have from the previously downloaded the OpenVPN configuration files.
- For Certificate Authority: Copy and paste all the content from the ca.crt file.
- Client Certificate and Client Key: blank.
- Click the Save button.
- Now under the Status tab.
- Click on Start VPN Client to establish/connect with the PureVPN OpenVPN connection.
You are connected to VPN now!!!
- In order to disconnect the OpenVPN connection, click on Stop VPN Client button.