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About Insight VPN connections
A virtual private network (VPN) connection lets remote users securely access a network
over the Internet. The network can be at an office or headquarters, behind the firewall
that the router provides.
The router is designed to function with NETGEAR Insight as an Insight managed device
and to provide virtual private networking using the NETGEAR Insight mobile app and
Cloud Portal.
With NETGEAR Insight, the router supports the following types of VPN connections:
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Client-to-gateway VPN connection. VPN access in which remote users access a
protected network. The device is the client, and the router is the gateway.
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Site-to-site VPN connection. VPN access with two routers, each at a different site,
which lets you connect two local LANs and separate networks together as if they
were physically connected and colocated.
For information about NETGEAR Insight and how you can use the NETGEAR Insight
mobile app and Cloud Portal to discover the router, add it to an Insight network, and
use Insight and the router to set up VPN connections, see the NETGEAR knowledge
base articles at netgear.com/support/ and the Insight user manual at
downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/Insight/Insight_UM_EN.pdf.
For general information about NETGEAR Insight, visit netgear.com/insight.
Set up an OpenVPN connection
The type of virtual private network (VPN) access in which remote users access a protected
network is called a client-to-gateway tunnel. The computer is the client, and the router
is the gateway. If you are not using NETGEAR Insight and you want to allows users to
access the router over a VPN connection, you must enable and configure OpenVPN
service on the router. Remote users must install and run OpenVPN client software on
their computer or mobile device.
OpenVPN requires a static IP address or DDNS service on the router to enable a remote
client such as a computer or mobile device to connect with the router. (If you use the
router for VPN connections in an Insight managed network with the NETGEAR Insight
mobile app or Cloud Portal, the router doesn’t require a static IP address and doesn’t
need to use DDNS.)
If the router uses a static WAN IP address that never changes, OpenVPN can use that
IP address to connect to the network over a VPN connection.
User Manual127Set Up VPN Connections
Insight Instant VPN Router BR500
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