Install OVPN on an Edgerouter (EdgeOS)

1. SSH into the router

Connect to your EdgeRouter by typing ssh ubnt@router IP. If you have changed the name of the admin account, use that username instead. Router IP is the IP address of the EdgeRouter. For instance, ssh ubnt@192.168.1.1.

2. Download the configuration you want

Total infrastructure ownership

All the hardware used to operate OVPN is owned by us. All VPN servers operate without hard drives as the operating system only resides in RAM.

3. Enter your login credentials

echo  "CHANGE TO YOUR USERNAME"  >> /config/user-data/credentials

echo "CHANGE TO YOUR PASSWORD" >> /config/user-data/credentials

4. Configure interfaces

Run the following commands:

configure
set interfaces openvpn vtun0 config-file /config/user-data/ovpn.ovpn
set interfaces openvpn vtun0 description 'OpenVPN VPN tunnel'

commit

edit service dns forwarding
set name-server 46.227.67.134
set name-server 192.165.9.158
top

set system name-server 127.0.0.1
commit
save
exit

5. Router interface

Open up your browser and log in to the Edgerouter browser interface. It's the same IP address that you used to SSH into in the first step, and is by default 192.168.1.1

Navigate to Firewall/NAT. Click on NAT. Click on + Add Source NAT Rule.

Enter the following:

Save the changes.

Click and drag masquerade for vtun0 so that it is located above masquerade for WAN. After that, click on Save Rule Order.

6. Finished

You should now be connected to OVPN and be able to browse the internet safely. To make sure everything was set up correctly, please check the dashboard to verify that you are connected.

Troubleshooting

In case the connection was not set up properly when you verified it in the previous step, please send us the OpenVPN log so we can assist. You can retrieve it by writing:

cat /tmp/openvpn.log