Connecting to the office network remotely from your home via VPN (OpenVPN) using RUTX

Configuration overview and prerequisites

Prerequisites:

• One RUTX router of any type
• A Public Static or Public Dynamic IP addresses
• At least one end device with Windows 10

The topology above depicts the OpenVPN scheme. - The router with the Public IP address (RUTX11) acts as the OpenVPN server and the Windows 10 device acts as a client. OpenVPN connects the networks of RUTX11 and Windows 10 clients.

When the scheme is realized, home workers will be able to reach the corporation’s internal network with all internal systems, allowing working from home to be possible.

Configuring OpenVPN from the client-side

TLS Certificates

• Firstly generate TLS certificates on your Windows Computer, you can find instructions on how to do it here.
• After you've successfully generated TLS certificates you will need to create a .ovpn file for storing client configurations. Simply open any text editor and follow this tutorial.
• Important: in your .ovpn file certificates you will need to copy are:
  
  • In <ca> </ca> paste whole certificate from /easy-rsa/pki/ca.crt
  • IN <cert></cert> paste whole certificate from /easy-rsa/pki/issued/"your_client_name".crt
  • And in the last section <key></key> paste whole private key from /easy-rsa/pki/private/"your_client_name".key
  • One more thing to change in your .ovpn file is to change the IP address to your router's public IP address:

• Now you can import your .ovpn file to the OpenVPN client by right-clicking on OpenVPN GUI in the hidden icons tray and navigating to Import > Import File.

Do not connect yet to your vpn client, we still have to configure the server.

Configuring OpenVPN from the server-side

• Firstly open your router's WebUI and navigate to Services > VPN > OpenVPN