How to setup a VPN server on your home router using DD-WRT

hello welcome to be sippin calm my name

is Aaron Eyre this video I am going to

show you how to set up a VPN server on a

home-based router like Linksys dealing

Netgear etc using dd-wrt dd-wrt is an

open source Linux based firmware that

you can install on your home router and

that will replace the factory default

firmware that comes along with it now if

you want to know if your router supports

dd-wrt you can go to the site called

Edie - wrt calm and go to the link

router database and type in the make and

model number of your router and it

should come here alright so if your

router is supported it would say

supported and if it says yes its

supported and if it says WIP its work in

progress if it says no it's not

supported so my router is supported and

I have already installed dd-wrt on my

router to know how to install the little

BRT you can just search for videos on

YouTube there with your router make and

model or you can also find a lot of

documentation on dd-wrt website itself

alright so for now I'm going to access

my router page by typing in the default

gateway offering computer or the routers

IP address which is 10.00 dot 1 and then

go to the tab say services and here you

will see a tab called VPN so this is

where we we are going to work now before

we go any further I would like to tell

you that if you want to set up a VPN

connection make sure that your one

connection is configured on this device

where you're sitting up the VPN for

example you might have a modem that's

provided by the Internet service

provider and you you will have a router

like this now if your 1 credentials that

is your pppoe credentials if it's a DSL

connection or if you your cable modem

credentials are configured on your modem

then this will not work so you will have

to check that and ensure your 1

credentials are configured on this

device where you're sitting up VPN right

and under PPTP server

ensure that enable is selected for all

these 3 options then for server IP

address enter the IP address of this

router then for client IP enter a range

of IP address which will be used to

allocate to the clients when they

connect to the VPN

so I have given its 10.0.0.0 to 250 and

there's a catch here this IP range

should not conflict with your local LAN

IP range so what I mean is if I go to

set up and if I scroll down

I'll see network address server settings

DHCP and I've enabled DHCP servers it to

enable my starting IP address is $10 odd

0.2 and maximum DHCP users I have said

it to 150 so if I bring in a laptop or a

tablet or anything and connect to the

local network I will be getting an IP

address anywhere between 10.00 to until

10.0.0.0 and 51 because it's like 150

users from - so it's 151 now when I go

to services and under VPN I should not

give any IP address between 10.00 -

until tender 151 so I chose a range from

200 to 250 all right now chap secrets

this is the field where you enter the

list of user accounts and their

passwords so this is a format you need

to enter the username leave a space put

a star and leave a space typing the

password of the user and then leave a

space a star

so it's user name space two stars and

the password in between the stars but

you have to have a space at the

beginning and at the end right now you

can enter more user accounts for example

if I want to have one more user account

for John I can just type John space star

space welcome one which will be the

password space star

alright so I can keep entering as many

user accounts as I want and click apply

settings and save and that'll save the

configuration alright so for now I have

already saved all the configuration

ensure that you leave all these things

as disable now make a note of the one IP

address so my one IP address is here

making out of that you need this IP

address when you are trying to connect

to the VPN now I'm going to switch to my

laptop which is connected to a different

network a totally different

Internet service provided I'm going to

show you how to configure the VPN client

on that to connect to this network all

right so I have logged into my laptop

and now I want to connect to my home

network using VPN so I go to start

control panel Network and sharing Center

then click this option set up a new

connection or network select the third

option connect to a workplace set up a

dial-up or VPN connection to your

workplace click Next then select the

first option use my internet connection

then type in the public IP address that

you have made a note of on the dd-wrt

page which is a wine IP address so I'm

typing my public IP address here

then destination name you can just give

any display name so I'm going to type

home VPN click Next

type in the username and the password

and the domain is optional you can leave

it blank select remember password so you

don't have a type every time click

connect

and you are connected so now I go to

command prompt by typing CMD and type

ipconfig I see that I've got an IP

address is 10.00 200 from my VPN server

which is the PPP adapter home VPN now I

can access my home network the home

computer by just typing the IP address

of my home computer and here you go I

enter my username and password for my

home computer and I can just access the

files alright this is how you set up a

VPN connection for yourself at your home

and you can actually connect your home

network while you're roaming outside or

if you're not at your home now I would

like to give you a tip here if you are

if your if your internet service

provider provides you a dynamic IP

address which means that if your one IP

address or the public IP address changes

every time when you reboot your modem or

when the connection disconnects or

reconnects it's a good idea to set up a

dynamic DNS account and configure it on

your dd-wrt router now I'm going to make

a video how to set up a dynamic DNS on

your dd-wrt I'll post a link on this

video as soon as I upload that video I

hope this video is informative for you

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