Vpngate.net VPN configuration

Summary

This chapter is a guide on configuring vpngate.com provider VPN instance on RUT routers.

No registration required.

Step 1: Download the OpenVPN Configuration File

Select VPN server

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Open your internet browser and type www.vpngate.net in the browser's URL bar. Choose country and press OpenVPN

Select protocol UDP/TCP

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Download the configuration file. In our example we use the TCP protocol.

Step 2: Certificates

Certificate creation

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Create three files in your chosen directory for certificates and key:

• ca.crt - Certificate authority
• client.crt - Client certificate
• client.key - Client Key

Create certificates

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Open the downloaded VPN configuration file and copy/paste the certificates and key to your empty files.

Save changes.

Step 3: Router configuration

Now we need to open our RUT homepage. You can access the website by entering 192.168.1.1 in your internet browser's URL bar.

Open VPN configuration panel by clicking Services → VPN

VPN instance creation

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Type in your VPN configuration name and click Add new

Click the Edit button to edit your VPN instance configuration

Configuration settings

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Check the Enable box

Select protocol (UDP or TCP. Depends on which configuration file you downloaded in Step 1 )

Set port, encryption, remote host/IP address and HMAC authentication algorithm from the VPN configuration file you downloaded. (example below)

Upload your certificates:

• Certificate authority = ca.crt
• Client certificate = client.crt
• Client key = client.key

Click Save.

Firewall configuration for this provider is unnecessary.

Step 4: Try your VPN

Wait up to 5 minutes from the time you saved the changes.

Press Status → Network.

Press OpenVPN and check VPN status.

Open your internet browser and visit website http://whatismyipaddress.com to check location that should have changed.

Location after VPN

External links

http://www.vpngate.net