I’ve been playing around with NordVPN lately to get around things like video resolution throttling over an LTE connection. It works, and things in general seem faster now, for example, instead of defaulting to 480p, Youtube videos now run at the full 1080p. I followed the setup guide here:
https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/IKEv2_EAP_between_NordVPN_and_RouterOS
It works the way it is, but I noticed NordVPN also offers a static IP option. I’ve added that to my account, but I haven’t been able to get that to work on RouterOS yet. There aren’t any tutorials on how to get it to work on a router, but there is a tutorial on getting it to work with Linux using OpenVPN here:
https://support.nordvpn.com/General-info/1489354602/How-to-connect-to-your-dedicated-IP-on-Linux.htm
I’ve used OVPN before to create tunnels through NAT from customer devices to my C&C server, but I’ve never tried routing an internet connection through one before. If I import the .ovpn file for my chosen server (below) I get a working ovpn interface that shows up as “connected” in Winbox and is dynamically assigned an IP address, but while it’s enabled no traffic can pass to the internet from the LAN, or from the router itself. Pinging any remote address from the router console just times out. From the looks of the following screen shot, it seems there’s data going out but nothing coming back.
OVPN Configuration:
[admin@RVS] /interface/ovpn-client> print
Flags: X - disabled; R - running; H - hw-crypto; T - tls-auth
0 R T name="ovpn-import1703711386" mac-address=FE:DC:AD:DC:AE:46 max-mtu=1500
connect-to=149.102.249.137 port=1194 mode=ip protocol=udp
user="myusername" password="mypassword"
profile=default certificate=none verify-server-certificate=yes
tls-version=any auth=sha512 cipher=aes256-cbc use-peer-dns=yes
add-default-route=yes route-nopull=no disconnect-notify=yes
Routing table:
[admin@RVS] /ip/route> print
Flags: D - DYNAMIC; A - ACTIVE; c - CONNECT, v - VPN, m - MODEM
Columns: DST-ADDRESS, GATEWAY, DISTANCE
DST-ADDRESS GATEWAY DISTANCE
DAm 0.0.0.0/0 lte1 2
DAv 0.0.0.0/1 10.8.0.1 0
DAc 10.0.0.0/24 sfp1 0
DAc 10.8.0.0/16 ovpn-import1703711386 0
DAc 10.92.138.57/32 lte1 0
DAv 128.0.0.0/1 10.8.0.1 0
Local setup: RB922
LAN Interface: sfp1
WAN interface: lte1
Here’s the .ovpn file that I imported:
client
dev tun
proto udp
remote 149.102.249.137 1194
resolv-retry infinite
remote-random
nobind
tun-mtu 1500
tun-mtu-extra 32
mssfix 1450
persist-key
persist-tun
ping 15
ping-restart 0
ping-timer-rem
reneg-sec 0
comp-lzo no
verify-x509-name CN=us10471.nordvpn.com
remote-cert-tls server
auth-user-pass
verb 3
pull
fast-io
cipher AES-256-CBC
auth SHA512
<ca>
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----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==
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
</ca>
key-direction 1
<tls-auth>
#
# 2048 bit OpenVPN static key
#
-----BEGIN OpenVPN Static key V1-----
e685bdaf659a25a200e2b9e39e51ff03
0fc72cf1ce07232bd8b2be5e6c670143
f51e937e670eee09d4f2ea5a6e4e6996
5db852c275351b86fc4ca892d78ae002
d6f70d029bd79c4d1c26cf14e9588033
cf639f8a74809f29f72b9d58f9b8f5fe
fc7938eade40e9fed6cb92184abb2cc1
0eb1a296df243b251df0643d53724cdb
5a92a1d6cb817804c4a9319b57d53be5
80815bcfcb2df55018cc83fc43bc7ff8
2d51f9b88364776ee9d12fc85cc7ea5b
9741c4f598c485316db066d52db4540e
212e1518a9bd4828219e24b20d88f598
a196c9de96012090e333519ae18d3509
9427e7b372d348d352dc4c85e18cd4b9
3f8a56ddb2e64eb67adfc9b337157ff4
-----END OpenVPN Static key V1-----
</tls-auth>
What am I doing wrong here?