Hi - I enabled a remote openvpn connection to NordVpn on my Max BR1 Pro HW7 device (the cat-20 device). Traffic is being routed through the remote vpn server now, but some devices can’t connect to the wifi access point of the router, and my computer can, - but it doesn’t get a local ip assigned if connected via ethernet. And in any case, I can’t access the admin panel anymore at https://192.168.50.1
When connected via Wifi, the computer has an ip of 192.168.50.21 which was dhcp reserved by me already. I can ping the router, just can’t get to the admin page. I just want to turn off the OpenVPN connection. I can access another machine on the network at 192.168.50.101
I guess there is some kind of internal routing rule that needs to be configured… but now am I f’d? I have to factory reset?
Hi!
If you can’t access due to the OpenVPN profile being active, why not just disconnect the internet?
If a SIM Card, take it out.
If a cabled line, plug it out.
And then login and remove the profile?
Sounds like you’ve messed up some routing - and perhaps allowed your LAN to bind to the VPN and get a remote IP instead.
I don’t know where to begin, but I’m back. I had already tried what you suggested before you repied (thanks for the suggestion), but it didn’t make any difference when I first did it. But I did it again and started just trying to connect with different machines, with no clear results that helped inform anything. Eventually, the admin page just suddenly became accessible. I have no idea what allowed it to work, but I was basically just trying different devices, wifi and ethernet, and trying different manual IP declarations on 192.168.50.x and 192.168.1.x (in case some bug was causing I could get to the admin panel again, and so I deleted that Vpn profile (by the way, other than dhcp reservation, I have a default configuration - no routing rules or firewall entries, nothing at all - I only used this to get a sim card connection in the past, and now I use it for starlink).
At some point after reconnecting the WAN cable, I noticed there were no WAN lights on at all on the router. I tried multiple cables that I knew worked, but nothing. I tried another power cycle, same thing, until after the router completely booted (green status led), I pulled out the cable and reconnected it. Suddenly it was working.
I am not in the mood to troubleshoot this, and I don’t think I’ll be using an external vpn. I’ve got tailscale running on a proxmox host allowing me to get into the network, so that’s really all I need.
OK so I was just thinking I remembered seeing something aboiut a management IP being .50.10, and thought I’d go see where I saw that (I think it was when I clicked “WAN” from the dashboard), and lo and behold, the admin page is not appearing again. What in the >>>>.
I haven’t done ANYTHING other than type this reply. Firmware is 8.3. I think. I guess I’m going to power cycle again… InControl isn’t showing it as online, but I’m not sure if I have to pay for PrimeCare for that to work…?
Oh you know what, I don’t think I clicked “apply changes” when I deleted the vpn profile. I’m still being routed through the vpn.
Guess I’ll try disconnecting the wan again and power cycle.
I suppose the reboot is necessary after disconnecting the WAN to get access again, but as for why connecting to the VPN results in blocking admin access, that’s still my question. For the .ovpn file, I just used the udp one from the nord website. You mentioned something about routes, but I don’t know how to do that, and haven’t ever tried… Can you suggest where to look?
Hi…
Please… just a weird idea.
Can you adjust your lan ip address to not be 192.168.50.x or 192.168.1.x?
Change for something like 172.16.0.x ?