Wednesday, January 16, 2008 by Steve Zenone
I've been running IPCOP as my home firewall for a couple of years. I was also running OpenVPN on my firewall to allow for remote road warrior VPN connections. The combination worked great; protecting my home network while providing secure remote access. Still, the geek in me wanted to consolidate my hardware and experiment with dd-wrt. After a little research I found out that there was OpenVPN support for dd-wrt. However, looking at the documentation and various forums I didn't see anything showing me how to set up a successful road warrior tunnel. After an evening of experimenting got it to work; DD-WRT and OpenVPN running on a Linksys WRT54GL allowing inbound road warrior connections using tunnel mode. Here's what I did.
First, this is what I had setup previously:
DSL modem which plugged into
Computer running IPCOP and OpenVPN which plugged into
Switch and a separate WAP (a Linksys wireless access point)
I wanted to consolidate the last three pieces of hardware (firewall/OpenVPN, switch and WAP). My plan was to have the following:
DSL modem which plugs into
Linksys WRT54GL running DD-WRT and OpenVPN (also providing switch ports and a WAP) Continue reading »