Comments on: OpenVPN on Tomato based router

By: Baher Malek

Baher Malek — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 07:50:28 +0000

Hi James,

Did you ever get openvpn working on Tomato? I’m trying to do the same…I keep getting:

Jan 1 02:48:37 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[4499]: UDPv4 link remote: 64.64.131.118:1194
Jan 1 02:48:37 unknown daemon.err openvpn[4499]: read UDPv4 [ECONNREFUSED]: Connection refused (code=146)

Sounds like you got a little further since you were seeing username/passwd errors.
Let me know if you have any thoughts.

Thank you,
Baher

By: drj3kl

drj3kl — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:10:48 +0000

@Marco,

You are indeed a champion!! After struggling with the VPN issue for many hours I found this post. I did exactly as you mentioned. The only thing I had to alter was … remove txt after mss fix 1450

“script-security 2
up “/tmp/ovpn/up”
down “/tmp/ovpn/dn”…
before

Thank you once again. :p

Cheers -n 0Ne happy Aussie

By: Ronald

Ronald — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:11:25 +0000

Is there a way to disable the ‘nobind’ statement that Tomato generates into the config? I need to be able to specify a local outgoing port which is in-conflict with ‘nobind’.

By: Adolfo

Adolfo — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 01:50:44 +0000

First of all very thanks! I did it by the letter and got a connection but no internet access at all, I can’t even ping an address through the ping tool of Tomato. Any ideas?

By: alexey

alexey — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:30:07 +0000

email me at alexey at vpnblog.info and I will send you tips for login/pass

By: James Karat

James Karat — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 01:01:17 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial. I am setting up an OpenVPN client connection for HMA!VPN on Tomato, and have been using this tutorial as a general guide (realizing it was written for StrongVPN). I did not see instructions for entering your username and password. My log file has “unknown user” errors in it which makes sense, since I didn’t enter any. Can you tell me where in the Tomato configuration I would enter my VPN username and password?
Thanks.
JK

By: Marco A. B. Tada

Marco A. B. Tada — Sun, 22 May 2011 19:03:35 +0000

Just adding some info that was incomplete on my previous post, I think server and port must be configured on the basic vpn client configuration menu.

By: Marco A. B. Tada

Marco A. B. Tada — Sun, 22 May 2011 19:01:24 +0000

After changing some settings with strongvpn (quick configuration for speed – tcp with compression), I could not start vpn anymore.

So, I decided to copy the nvram set ovpn_cfg=” from the ovpnXXX_ddwrt.sh file to my custom configuration on tomatovpn (just the portion between the quotation after nvram set openvpn and the quotation before nvram set ovpn_up). The only thing that I had to remove from custom configuration was the “dev tun”, because it wasn’t creating the correct routes on my router. Some configuration can be duplicated on both custom configuration and on the client configuration menus, like server, port, compression, etc. I cleared the keys section, as my keys were stored on my custom configuration. I didn’t test if it was ok to clear other configuration, but I think most of configurations that have a drop down menu must be configured, and server . After these tweaks, my vpn started working again.

For the people complaining about the speed issue, try modifying your configuration at strongvpn, I used the tcp+compression configuration, and my speed is almost 4 times the one that I got with udp+nocompression.

By: Ronaldo Magat

Ronaldo Magat — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:36:55 +0000

Its more a lot of easier than the DDWRT but the issue here is the speed.. Im not impressed of the speed.. but its a great job and nice post

By: alexey

alexey — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 03:00:08 +0000

Hello Rob
this was example for StrongVPN service. You connect to OpenVPN configured server and receive config files from provider.
if you need own VPN server try google example