About VPN access to your network or
Internet service at your office or home [router
mode]
When you are away from your office or home and you access the Internet, you usually
use a local Internet service provider. For example, at a coffee shop you might be given
a code that lets you use the coffee shop’s Internet service account to surf the web.
The AP lets you use a VPN connection to access your own Internet service when you
are away from your office or home. You might want to do this if you travel to a geographic
location that does not support all the Internet services that you use at your office or
home. For example, your Netflix account might work at home but not in a different
country.
For information about the types of VPN client connections that the AP supports, see
Enable and configure OpenVPN and VPN client access on the AP [router mode] on
page 181. In addition to access to your office or home network, you can either allow or
block VPN client Internet access through your office or home network.
For the VPN tunnel to work, the LAN where your VPN client computer is connected must
use a different LAN IP address scheme from that of the LAN of the AP at your office or
home. If both networks use the same LAN IP address scheme, when the VPN tunnel is
established, you cannot access the AP network at your office or home with the OpenVPN
software.
The default LAN IP address scheme for the AP is 192.168.1.x. The most common IP
schemes are 192.x.x.x, 172.x.x.x, and 10.x.x.x. If you experience a conflict while you are
not at your office or home, consider asking someone else at your office or home to
change the AP IP address scheme for your office or home network (see LAN IP address
settings [router mode] on page 114).
Use a VPN tunnel to remotely access your
Internet service [router mode]
Before
you leave the location with your Internet service (for example, your office or
home), make sure that you do the following:
•
Set up VPN client access to your office or home network for the type of computer
or mobile device that you intend to use as a VPN client and allow VPN client
Internet
access
through your office or home network (see Enable and configure OpenVPN
and VPN client access on the AP [router mode] on page 181).
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VPN Server and Service with
OpenVPN [Router Mode]
WiFi 6 AX1800 Dual Band Wireless Access Point WAX204
