About Vpn Connections; Lan Ip Addressing In Vpn Networks - NETGEAR SXR50 User Manual

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About VPN connections

A virtual private network (VPN) lets you use the Internet to securely access your network
when you are away from your business.
This type of VPN access is called a client-to-gateway tunnel. The computer is the client,
and the router is the gateway. To use the VPN feature, you must do the following:
• Log in to the router to enable and configure OpenVPN (see Enable OpenVPN service
in the router on page 196).
• Install OpenVPN client software and configuration files on your device from which
you want to use VPN (see Install OpenVPN software on a VPN client on page 197).
• Run the OpenVPN client software on your device when you want to use a VPN
connection.
Enabling OpenVPN on your router allows VPN connections between the router and a
client, for example your laptop when you are away from your business. The router
provides the VPN service and the laptop is the VPN client. Traffic between the router
and the laptop is encrypted.
Note: The router itself does not function as a VPN client to an external VPN service
provider, so it does not encrypt traffic passing between your business network and the
Internet.
VPN can use either Dynamic DNS (DDNS) or a static IP address to connect with your
router:
• To use a DDNS service, register for a DDNS account with a host name. You use the
host name to access your business network. The router supports these DDNS
accounts: NETGEAR, No-IP, and Dyn. For more information, see Dynamic DNS on
page 127.
• If your Internet service provider (ISP) assigned a static WAN IP address that never
changes, the VPN can use that IP address to connect to your business network.

LAN IP addressing in VPN networks

For the VPN connection to work, your computer or device (the VPN client) must be
connected to a network that uses a different LAN IP address scheme than your router.
The default LAN IP address scheme for the router is 192.168.1.x. (The most common IP
schemes are 192.168.x.x, 172.x.x.x, and 10.x.x.x.) If you experience a conflict, change
the IP scheme either for your business network or for the network where your VPN client
device is connected.
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