OpenVPN-Setup

Settopbox

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Although you can install OpenVPN on your Enigma2 box it is not to be recommended. You should use a router for that (WiFi router or NAS) or a custom router firmware. So use something that's being updated regularly and has a large community, as safety is much higher when you have the latest security updates.

Setup

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This is an experimental setup, using the command line from the forum, so please report any error or problems in this thread

on the forum.

• Install openvpn using the command line

opkg install openvpn

• Create files ca.crt, server.crt, server.key, same files for clients, client.crt, client.key, following this link

• All files have to be .pem extension, so convert the files, please follow this guide up to finish this three last steps:

set RANDFILE=c:\demo\.rnd
set OPENSSL_CONF=C:\OpenSSL-Win32\bin\openssl.cfg
c:\OpenSSL-Win32\bin\openssl.exe

• Now, in this mode, you can convert .crt and .key files to .pem for server files, and put these files in your stb\receiver at /etc/openvpn/

$ openssl> x509 -in filename.crt -inform DER -out filename.crt.pem -outform PEM
$ openssl> rsa -in filename.key -out filename.key.pem -outform PEM

The ca.cert file, we have to open the certificate in windows OS and select details tab> copy file>convert to binary DER x509 and select destination folder to save.

Then we convert the ca.cer file to .pem file:

OpenSSL>x509 -inform DER -in ca.cer -outform PEM -out ca.pem

All these conversions to .pem extension is based on openvpn --help binary information of our installation of openvpn in our STB, maybe it's not necessary.

dh2048.pem have to locate at openvpn config directory too, /etc/openvpn

I add two extra .pem files to the directory 01.pem and 02.pem, they have been generated on the files creation, they contains key info, I don't know if there is duplicity of information.

Lets to put the server config file parameters /etc/openvpn/server.conf

local 192.168.xxx.xxx (local network IP)
server 10.8.0.0 255.255.255.0 (for example)
tls-server
proto udp
port 443 (sample port)
dev tun
ca ca.pem
dh dh2048.pem
cert server.crt.pem
key server.key.pem
extra-certs 01.pem
extra-certs 02.pem
ifconfig-pool-persist ipp.txt
comp-lzo
float
ping-timer-rem
persist-key
persist-tun
status openvpn-status.log
log openvpn.log
verb 3
keepalive 10 120

Client profile *.ovpn (tested on android openvpn app).

client
dev tun
proto udp
remote 'hostname(NOIP) or Public IP' 443 (sample port)
resolv-retry infinite
nobind
persist-key
persist-tun
mute-replay-warnings
ca /file_path/ca.crt
cert /file_path/client.crt
key /file_path/client.key
ns-cert-type server
cipher bf-cbc
comp-lzo
verb 3
mute 20

The port we are going to use to vpn connection have to be opened, of course, and you can forward to other external different port as you know.