dmd3x Posted July 7, 2008 Share Posted July 7, 2008 I have two WRT54G routers. One is at home, connected to a DSL modem, with a few computers behind it. The other will be in a college dorm room, serving as a wireless endpoint router (the network I connect to at college is wireless), and the computers I will use in my dorm room will be connected to the wired network ports on the router. EDIT: I would like to set up a VPN tunnel between the routers. Is it possible to set up this VPN? DD-WRT seems to have a ton of options, and having these two routers I think I may be able to do it, but I am not sure where to start with the set up... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/647692-vpn-with-linksys-wrt54g-routers/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted July 7, 2008 MVC Share Posted July 7, 2008 Are you running the VPN version of dd-wrt.. The micro version does not support this, the version of your wrt54g needs to be able to run the bigger vpn version of the firmware. http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/What_...F#File_Versions Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/647692-vpn-with-linksys-wrt54g-routers/#findComment-589538626 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmd3x Posted July 7, 2008 Author Share Posted July 7, 2008 BudMan said: Are you running the VPN version of dd-wrt.. The micro version does not support this, the version of your wrt54g needs to be able to run the bigger vpn version of the firmware.http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/What_...F#File_Versions ok. one of them is a WRT54GL, so that should help things a little. :D i have to check if the other one will work with the VPN version. if not, i am willing to purchase one that is compatible. if this is the case, do you recommend another WRT54GL or a different model? also, i was wondering... has anybody had any luck with a similar setup? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/647692-vpn-with-linksys-wrt54g-routers/#findComment-589538638 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted July 8, 2008 MVC Share Posted July 8, 2008 Well the GL would be good choice. I have used openvpn quite a bit to setup stuff like this, but never with both ends being dd-wrt devices. But should not be a problem.. Looks like here is a walk thru http://www.geek-pages.com/articles/latest/..._on_dd-wrt.html SCENARIO: We wanted to connect two small business offices with a VPN. Our existing firewalls were Linksys WRT54Gs. We chose to run the DD-WRT VPN firmware and utilize OpenVPN to help resolve our need. OpenVPN can be run in two modes: routed and bridged. The steps below set up a routed VPN so we could keep our existing subnets at each site. If you are looking for bridged VPN instructions client here. One of the WRTs should be the VPN server and the other shouild be the VPN client. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/647692-vpn-with-linksys-wrt54g-routers/#findComment-589539164 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmd3x Posted July 8, 2008 Author Share Posted July 8, 2008 Very cool... I consider both DD-WRT and OpenVPN options for this project. I'm thinking of setting up one WRT as 192.168.1.1 and the other as 192.168.2.1, so I guess this would be two different subnets, and I would want to go with the 'routed' option? If I went bridged, then could I have everything under 192.168.1.x? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/647692-vpn-with-linksys-wrt54g-routers/#findComment-589539870 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted July 8, 2008 MVC Share Posted July 8, 2008 unless you really, REALLY had a specific reason to bridge the 2 networks -- I would HIGHLY suggest you go with a routed setup. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/647692-vpn-with-linksys-wrt54g-routers/#findComment-589540749 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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