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Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
7. For Device type, select the mode used by the OpenVPN server, either TUN or TAP.
8. For Zone, select the firewall zone for the OpenVPN client.
9. (Optional) Select the Metric for the OpenVPN client. If multiple active routes match a
destination, the route with the lowest metric will be used.
10. (Optional) For Username and Password, type the login credentials as configured on the
OpenVPN server.
11. For VPN server IP, type the IP address of the OpenVPN server.
12. (Optional) Set the VPN port used by the OpenVPN server. The default is 1194.
13. Paste the contents of the CA certificate (usually in a ca.crt file), the Public key (for example,
client.crt), and the Private key (for example, client.key) into their respective fields. The
contents will be hidden when the configuration is saved.
14. (Optional) Click to expand Advanced Options to manually set additional OpenVPN
parameters.
a. Click Enable to enable the use of additional OpenVPN parameters.
b. Click Override if the additional OpenVPN parameters should override default options.
c. For OpenVPN parameters, type the additional OpenVPN parameters. For example, to
override the configuration by using a configuration file, enter --config filename, for
example, --config /etc/config/openvpn_config.
15. Click Apply to save the configuration and apply the change.
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Command line
1. Log into the IX14 command line as a user with full Admin access rights.
Depending on your device configuration, you may be presented with an Access selection
menu. Type admin to access the Admin CLI.
2. At the command line, type config to enter configuration mode:
> config
(config)>
3. At the config prompt, type:
(config)> add vpn openvpn client name
(config vpn openvpn client name)>
where name is the name of the OpenVPN server.
The OpenVPN client is enabled by default. To disable the client, type:
(config vpn openvpn client name)> enable false
(config vpn openvpn client name)>
4. The default behavior is to use an OVPN file for client configuration. To disable this behavior
and configure the client manually:
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