Hi Guys,
after reading here all the cool things you can do with merlin I decided to bite the bullet and got myself an Asus AC86U. I received it a couple of days ago and I'm trying to setup multiple VPNs and have different devices connecting to different VPNs.
I managed to set up the VPNs but I'm having issues with the mapping.
I'm connected to the VPNs correctly.
I've setup each VPN in a pretty similar way, here's an example:
I have setup my phone to use connect to Paris but it's not working. Sometimes it connects directly, sometimes it connect to a different VPN, it's the same for any other device and I really can't figure out what's wrong.
I don't have a rule for that device in any other VPN client setting.
The kill switch is enabled for all VPNs.
DSN configutation is set to 'exclusive' for all VPNs.
The traffic rule is set to "Policy Rules (strict)" for all VPNs.
I also set the devices to have a static IP address in the DHCP server page:
I'm really lost here.
According to this: https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng/wiki/Policy-based-routing
With my setup, if I don't set any specific rule for a device, the device should connect directly, if I specify one the device should go via the VPN.
Feel like I'm missing something obvious. Can anyone help please?
If it's any useful:
- I went from the stock firmware directly to the latest 384.19 version.
- my goal is to be able to have something like this:
the next stage would be to rotate the devices around automatically but that's a separate story
after reading here all the cool things you can do with merlin I decided to bite the bullet and got myself an Asus AC86U. I received it a couple of days ago and I'm trying to setup multiple VPNs and have different devices connecting to different VPNs.
I managed to set up the VPNs but I'm having issues with the mapping.
I'm connected to the VPNs correctly.
I've setup each VPN in a pretty similar way, here's an example:
I have setup my phone to use connect to Paris but it's not working. Sometimes it connects directly, sometimes it connect to a different VPN, it's the same for any other device and I really can't figure out what's wrong.
I don't have a rule for that device in any other VPN client setting.
The kill switch is enabled for all VPNs.
DSN configutation is set to 'exclusive' for all VPNs.
The traffic rule is set to "Policy Rules (strict)" for all VPNs.
I also set the devices to have a static IP address in the DHCP server page:
I'm really lost here.
According to this: https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng/wiki/Policy-based-routing
With my setup, if I don't set any specific rule for a device, the device should connect directly, if I specify one the device should go via the VPN.
Feel like I'm missing something obvious. Can anyone help please?
If it's any useful:
- I went from the stock firmware directly to the latest 384.19 version.
- my goal is to be able to have something like this:
Device A | VPN 1 |
Device B | VPN 2 |
Device C | VPN 2 |
Device D | WAN |
the next stage would be to rotate the devices around automatically but that's a separate story
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