I’m looking for some help to set up a VPN connection that I can use to connect from overseas. I have an Archer VR1600V router as my main router which my ISP has provided which is connected to the internet box. This router does not have a VPN capability on it (ISP has turned it off) but I have bought two AR750S for the purposes of setting up a VPN through one and connecting to it through the other.
I have currently have the VR1600V (lets call this primary router) connected to the internet and have an ethernet cable running from the VR1600V’s LAN slot to the AR750S (lets call this VPN router) router’s WAN port.
Now at a point where I have to set up a VPN (take my home IP address) so that I can connect to it from the second AR750S (lets call this connection router) router. I’m not sure what I need to do to get this done. Can anyone help out with this?
I found out that I can’t get a public IP address from my ISP and setting up a server requires this. I’m looking into the path of setting up a DDNS to push my private ips to the host and then to use that as in replacement of the public IP required to set up servers. But i’m stuck at this stage. do you have any ideas how this can be done?
The GL iNet router has its own DDNS service. If turned on, it will give you name in the format: xxxxxxx.glddns.com and it will point to your current home IP address. Works great.
Will I need to complete this port forward (using secondary router IP) on the main router’s console? Doing this for the first time and not sure what I need to do
Yes. On the Archer you will port forward the WireGuard and/or OpenVPN ports to the Slate which is staying at home.
I suggest you set up both of those servers on that slate, but make the OpenVPN server to be TCP (the Wireguard is UDP, and sometimes it gets blocked). That way if UDP is blocked then you can connect over OpenVPN (slower but better than nothing)
the Archer you will port forward the WireGuard and/or OpenVPN ports to the Slate which is staying at home.
Do you know how I can do this? I’ve set up DDNS on the Slate router and have port forwarded HTTP/HTTPS/SSL ports using the Internal IP for the Slate (which I found on my main ISP router) and using external/internal ports as the number on the GLiNet website.
