Netgear R8000 VPN travails
Lots of problems using this router for VPN services. They don't allow accounts and they all use the same cert. If you have to withdraw a cert from someone you do it for everyone. Not a good idea. Here's the issue. VPN was turned on, and configured as default -- using default ports for both TCP and UDP. Normally you'd use 1194 but this defaults that you use 12973 and 12974 respectively for protocols. Not sure why. Why would you need two ports for this when frankly openvpn uses UDP by default? Anyway, nothing we did would make this work. Multiple checks against settings. Testing from remote locations with multiple clients. A sifting of the openvpn configuration files. Ensuring certificates and keys were in place. Nothing would work. I attempted…