OpenVPN Support

AC-Max · June 19, 2020, 3:48am

Definitely welcome. OpenVPN Clinet would help us a lot with the integration of the devices.

Bogeyman · June 19, 2020, 5:45am

Agreed, OpenVPN client support is becoming increasingly in demand

A lot of companies and government departments are pushing for the use of open standards.

We work with a custom hardend version of OpenVPN that we would like to use on Peplink equipment. If OpenVPN (vanilla) would be supported, it would absolutely increase our willingness to buy more Peplink hardware!

Please consider to support this ASAP, if need be via a license key purchase!

Alex · June 22, 2020, 3:18pm

Thanks everyone. We are seriously looking into this. Stay tuned.

Wolverine · June 27, 2020, 1:37pm

+1 for OpenVPN feature request.

tcpip95 · July 9, 2020, 12:38pm

+1 more for OpenVPN client feature request.

Tim_S · July 9, 2020, 2:41pm

I have great news to share with everyone! You asked and we listened, OpenVPN client mode will be officially supported in the 8.1.1 firmware build and the license key will only cost $20!

8.1.0 should be going GA by the end of July and after that we should be able to create a special build of it with this feature supported for those who can’t wait to try it out.

Stay tuned!

Jonathan_Pitts · July 9, 2020, 4:26pm

Will it automatically be included with prime care devices?

brianyoungblood · July 9, 2020, 6:24pm

Good timing I was looking for an answer to this. This would be great and happy to pay $20 for the feature.

tcpip95 · July 10, 2020, 5:46am

@Tim_S Thanks for listening. Good job by a good vendor.

BeachComber1 · July 12, 2020, 12:04am

Thank you for listening!

BeachComber1 · July 14, 2020, 8:15pm

Can you give us overview of how this will work on multiWAN Balance units?

Kenny · July 14, 2020, 10:38pm

OpenVPN WAN is standalone “WAN” (i.e. a new WAN show on Dashboard). You can configure the priority of the physical WANs to connect to OpenVPN server (similar to IPsec’s “WAN Connection Priority”). You can apply outbound policy, firewall, etc on OpenVPN WAN.

Tim_S · July 16, 2020, 10:01pm

OpenVPN is inferior to our SpeedFusion technology. If you want true hot-failover and bandwidth bonding the only solution is SpeedFusion.

Thanks

MartinLangmaid · July 25, 2020, 12:59pm

If you added OpeVPn client support to Fusionhub, then we could do Speedfusion Bonding to Fusionhub from Peplink hardware and use a third party commercial VPN provider for anonymous and/or geographic routing of more sensitive/vpn aware traffic like Netflix bbc iplayer etc.

Scott_kiwiz · August 9, 2020, 5:24pm

A license for an open standard VPN even if $20 is abit of a harsh. Since it was requested back in 2016 and almost any premium home router has support for both client and server mode nowadays. I was going to suggest you start focusing on new wireguard VPN protocol. Ultra efficient, secure and now core in Linux kernel. A great benchmark for future work related VPNs

BeachComber1 · August 9, 2020, 10:31pm

I mentioned about a month ago I might be pressing my luck as it appears Open VPN is just now happening, but suggested WireGuard be looked at.

It is amazing how fast wireguard is without taking a big hit on the encryption overhead.

tcpip95 · August 18, 2020, 6:06am

Now that 8.1.0 is officially released, when do you expect to have a Beta release 8.1.1 with OpenVPN support available for testing?

Kenny · August 19, 2020, 5:31pm

We are working hard on this feature, firmware will be available soon.

brianyoungblood · September 2, 2020, 7:35pm

Any thoughts on when you’d be comfortable releasing a beta with OpenVPN?

TK_Liew · September 3, 2020, 8:32pm

OpenVPN client mode is around the corner. Please wait for the annoucement.

Thanks.