This article will guide you through the steps involved in setting up LimeVPN OpenVPN on a Tomato firmware router. We have used a Linksys router flashed with the latest Fresh Tomato firmware to prepare this article:
Step 1: Log in to the router control panel by entering the router’s default IP address 192.168.1.1 to the address bar of your preferred browser. (If you change your router’s default IP address, enter that into your browser instead). Enter the admin name and password for your router, then click Sign In. The default username for Tomato is root and password is admin.
Step 2: In the left-hand menu, click on VPN Tunneling. Then click on OpenVPN Client.
Step 3: Now configure your OpenVPN client as shown below:
Under Basic Tab:
Start with WAN: Check
Interface Type: TUN.
Protocol: Choose either UDP or TCP and keep it in mind as this will be important later on.
For the first field enter our server hostname. Complete list of servers can be obtained from here.
Enter port number 80 for TCP or port number 53 for UDP.
Authentication Mode: TLS
Username: Enter your LimeVPN username
Password: Enter your LimeVPN password
Extra HMAC authorization (tls-auth): Outgoing(1)
Auth Digest: SHA1
Create NAT on tunnel: Check
Click Save.
Step 4 : Under Advanced Tab:
Accept DNS configuration: Relaxed
Cipher Negotiation: Enabled (with fallback)
Legacy/fallback cipher: Use Default
Compression: LZO Adaptive
Connection retry: 30
Click Save
Step 5 : Under Keys Tab:
For Static Key: Copy and paste all the content from the us1.ovpn file you have downloaded with the OpenVPN configuration files.
For Certificate Authority: Copy and paste all the content from the ca.ca.crt file.
Client Static Key, Certificate and Client Key: blank
Click Save.
Step 6 :Go to the “Status” tab and click Start Now to connect with OpenVPN connection.
You are connected to VPN now!!!
If you want to disconnect your OpenVPN connection, click on Stop Now button/option.