VPN questions

[bagelboy]

Howdy gang

I finally got my HDA up and running. Pretty proud of myself. I'm a complete linux noob.
Everything on my side of my router seems to be working like it's supposed to.

The issue I have is the VPN. I have opened the required ports on the router. I even have the HDA set as the DMZ.
But I cannot get the website to see it.

One oddity I saw is that the web control panel shows this:

Network 192.168.1.*
HDA IP Address 192.168.1.10
Network Gateway 192.168.1.1

It doesn't match my network. It should be: 192.168.0.XX

Any advice?

Thanks

[bigfoot65]

Hello,

What you can do is change the gateway on your hda to match your network. Enter this as the command prompt as root user:

hda-change-gw 192.168.0.1

That is if your router is that IP. Once you do that, things should work.

[bagelboy]

Thanks for the reply.

That correctly changed things on my end, but not the amahi.org page. Does it take time to refresh?

[bagelboy]

Still not working. Should I take this over to the VPN forum?

[unknown8585]

I don't think you have to forward any ports if Your HDA is in DMZ. Take your HDA out of DMZ and portforward, your Hda ip address will most likely return to the same subnet as your other devices on the network/

[bagelboy]

I don't think you have to forward any ports if Your HDA is in DMZ. Take your HDA out of DMZ and portforward, your Hda ip address will most likely return to the same subnet as your other devices on the network/

I've had it with and without DMZ, no go either way.

I am running an anciently old netgear MR814v2 router. Think this would be a problem?

[sag47]

Did you make sure that you're forwarding UDP and not TCP?

Also take it out of DMZ! You don't want the internet to be able to access your shares or HDA. Granted it's running Linux but why take the chance?

Does your HDA show up as being installed in amahi.org control panel? If not then we need to sort that out before we mess with the VPN.

[bagelboy]

Did you make sure that you're forwarding UDP and not TCP?

That's the thing. I'm not sure. My router interface doesn't have an option between TCP and UDP. It only wants port numbers. I was planning on upgrading to a more modern router. I guess this is a good time?

Does your HDA show up as being installed in amahi.org control panel? If not then we need to sort that out before we mess with the VPN.

Yup, it shows that it's installed and running on the amahi.org control panel.

[sag47]

Who is your ISP? There's also the possibility that they have you on a heavily firewalled network. It would be a good idea to email your ISP and ask them in case it is them blocking you instead of your router.

[bagelboy]

I have CenturyLink, used to be Embarq. I'll drop them a line and let you know what they say.

Also bought a new Linksys/Cisco E2000 today. Set it up to forward 1194 UDP to my HDA machine. Still no go.