

Note: for ease and simplicity of the overall configuration (post OpenVPN client setup), set your DNS servers within the DHCP scope to Google (8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4) or Level3 (4.2.2.2 / 4.2.2.3).This wizard also configures DHCP services for your LAN.

“But I’m using eth0 right now to talk to the router!” I know.This wizard will configure eth0 to be your WAN port, and eth1, eth2, eth3, and eth4 as LAN ports.Click on the Wizards tab and go through the WAN+2LAN2 setup.Statically assign your computer’s network adapter to the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet and physically connect to the eth0 port.As a result, you will have to do a couple of steps to get it into a “store-bought” state. The EdgeRouter X does NOT come pre-configured with DHCP services like most commercial routers do.
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Feedback on how to make this guide better is welcome in the comments! Initial Setup

I’m writing this assuming you have basic understanding of networking and computer terms. This walk through will take you from unboxing the EdgeRouter X to OpenVPN client connectivity for the whole LAN, hopefully with relative simplicity. setting up just specific clients to use the VPN tunnel rather than the whole LAN). Also, some of the information wasn’t instructionally (step-by-step) complete, including Ubiquity’s own support posts, or were too involved cause of someone’s personal preference (ex. A lot of the information I came across was to also use it as an OpenVPN server. I wrote this walk through cause it took me days to figure out what you NEED to do to use the EdgeRouter X as an OpenVPN client only. I bought the EdgeRouter X mainly based on the rave reviews Steve Gibson gave on the Security Now podcast: a $70 CAD / $50 USD router that had a majority of the the enterprise level routing capabilities that you see in expensive Juniper or Cisco gear, without the cost. Its somewhat similar to Cisco IOS, so if you have familiarity with that, just keep in mind the principles between IOS and EdgeOS are the same except there are different commands to do what you want to. I’ve done limited Cisco console work in my IT career, so diving into EdgeOS still took me a couple of days to wrap my head around.
