Of course you can Google that, but I'll give you a hint.
For example, you can use it to create a secure connection from the office to your home network.
You will get a local IP address valid on your home network.
So all local resources will be available, like if you are at home.
For example your NAS.
It's an obscure Open Source VPN format that is of little use for anything other than remote client access. Unfortunately more useful point to point VPN options like IPSEC and SSL are not currently offered.
Personally I would donate $50 if IPSEC support was added so that I could extend my home network into Azure.
thank you.. i get the idea now ...
how to set it uo on merlin firmware..
i cant find any tutorial for merlin..
all of them is tomato and ddwrt ..
When you read "SSL VPN" on a device's spec sheet, most of the time it means OpenVPN... I've seen corporate products use OpenVPN in their 800$+ firewall/VPN appliances. For example, Astaro uses OpenVPN, they simply brand it as "SSL VPN".
So no, OpenVPN is hardly obscure, as it's effectively the same thing as what you consider "a more useful VPN option" - SSL VPN.
A quick check shows that apparently neither Juniper, Checkpoint, Microsoft or Cisco VPNs support Open VPN - and they are the market leaders. So from that point of view Open VPN is very obscure.
Tomato is almost identical to Asuswrt-Merlin. I tried to reproduce the option layouts to match Tomato's, so most of the tutorials for Tomato are easily applied to Asuswrt-Merlin as well.
LOL - Damn Geeks
Can you tell the OP is NOOB (just like me)? Can you help him with some direct answers? Rather than spilling out technical terms such as Obscure, IPSEC, Kennel Module, etc. Is there a section in this forum/article "OpenVPN for Dummies"? I come here EVERYDAY trying to learn something new about my router and most of the stuff you guys talk about is WAY over my head. hahahah
DO I HAVE TO BUY A VPN service in order to use OpenVPN? All I want to do is access my router/server from WAN.
THANKS A BILLION!
still cant get my openvpn setup...
so confuesed ...
Tomato is almost identical to Asuswrt-Merlin. I tried to reproduce the option layouts to match Tomato's, so most of the tutorials for Tomato are easily applied to Asuswrt-Merlin as well.
That's ok and understandable.
You can see a few notes from Merlin at this URL: https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin/wiki/Configuring-OpenVPN
One of the Merlin's notes points out the following site for a "howto": http://www.howtogeek.com/60774/connect-to-your-home-network-from-anywhere-with-openvpn-and-tomato/
That's a good start.
Please come back if you have more precise questions in the setup process.
GH
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