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Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
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.
Command line
1. Select the device in Remote Manager and click Actions > Open Console, or log into the IX40
local 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:
(config vpn openvpn client name )> use_file false
(config vpn openvpn client name )>
5. Set the mode used by the OpenVPN server:
(config vpn openvpn client name )> device_type value
(config vpn openvpn client name )>
where value is either tun or tap. The default is tun.
6. Set the firewall zone for the OpenVPN client:
(config vpn openvpn client name )> zone value
(config vpn openvpn client name )>
To view a list of available zones:
(config vpn openvpn client name )> zone ?
Zone: The zone for the openvpn client interface.
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