Application Notes For Setting Up A VPN Connection On A...

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This application note

should help to guide you

through the process of

setting up a VPN

connection on a

DrayTek router .

Application Notes For Setting Up A VPN

Connection On A Draytek Router

Note: Before you start please be sure that you have followed the previous

application note on setting up a Dynamic DNS setup on router as this will insure

that we can connect to the router using a fix IP service such as No-IP.com as the

IP address that the router is provided with by the ISP could change.

The guide assumes that you have correctly configured the router and can access

the routers configuration screen via a web browser have confirmed that you have

internet access by using either wireless network or cat5 Ethernet cable

connected to router.

First we have to enable dial-in access:

On the left hand side of the screen select

Remote Access Control from the list of

options.

Then make sure that Enable PPTP VPN

Service is selected from the remote Access

Control Setup screen, once selected click OK

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If you have changed the router's default IP address (from 192.168.1.1) then you

must make sure dial-in users are allocated addresses from the new IP range,

e.g. if you have changed the address of the router to say 192.168.111.1 then the

assigned IP start range must be in the same range such as 192.168.111.200. So

when you successfully connect to the router your vpn connection will be given a

IP address in the same range as the routers lan starting from 192168.111.200.

To assign the correct IP address range select VPN and Remote Access and

then PPP General Setup from the menu.

Then change the Assigned IP start address to the same IP range as the router.

Eg if the router is 192.168.111.1 then you need to set the LAN 1 address to

192.168.111.200. The reason why you would choose to start at say

xxx.xxx.xxx.200 is that it leaves the rest of the IP range free for other devices

and will avoid conflicts.

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Next Select VPN and Remote Access and then Remote Dial-in User from the

menu.

Select the first entry under index 1.

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Tick the Enable the account button and enter a username and password for

this user. Both username and password are case sensitive (i.e. Freddy is not the

same as freddy). Be sure of what you enter.

Now select PPTP as the Allowed Dial-in Type and deselect any other protocols

ticked.

Now that the VPN has been configured on the router, you will now need

to follow the App note titled App note for Dynamic DNS and once this

has been completed, you are ready to access your VPN.

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To access your VPN, you can use the Draytek Smart VPN Client. This can be

downloaded from the Draytek website (see link).

http://draytek.co.uk/support/downloads.html

Once the page has loaded, scroll to the bottom and select

‘Smart VPN Client V.4.0.0.5 (Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7)’

Run the program and follow the install guide.

Once installed, the program should open automatically and a window similar to

the one below will present itself.

On the bottom of the program, select ‘Insert’, this will create a new

VPN. You can have an unlimited amount of profiles that you can

connect to at any one time. Once the ‘Insert’ button is pressed you will

get the ‘VPN Config’ page (see overleaf).

http://draytek.co.uk/support/downloads.html

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You will need to enter some credentials and preference (see example).

Under the VPN server name, enter a name that no-ip or dyndns has

given the Host.

The username and password is the same as you would use to log into

no-ip or dyndns, make sure that the type of VPN is ‘PPTP’ and that

the PPTP Encryption is set to ‘Require encryption’ (see example).

Press ‘OK’, this will close the window and return you back to the main

screen, from there you can then select which VPN connection you

would like to use.

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For this example, a home router connection will be used (see example).

Once you select which connection you wish to make press the ‘Connect’ button.

The username and password options will then present themselves. Once

completed, press the ‘OK’ button.

The status display will change from ‘No Connection’ to ‘Dialling’ to ‘Authenticate’.

Once connected, the page will shut down and run in the background

(note: Windows 7 will tell you that a VPN connection has been made).

Now that you are connected via the VPN you can open a web

browser and connect to IP devices on the network.

(note: If you are setting up the VPN while on site and would like us

to check the connection for you at our end, please contact Habitech

on 01420 540 051 with the VPN Server name, username, password

plus the IP of the router and we will do what we can to help.)

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