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UTM as VPN "Client"

Hey Guys!

I recently signed up for a VPN service. I want to have all the traffic from the device to go through the tunnel The service has .ovpn config files, as well as all the info I could need to set up a VPN connection, which I have downloaded. Now I have a bunch of .ovpn config files which are utterly useless.

On a side note, the #1 VPN feature request is something to convert the .ovpn to the (seemingly) proprietary .apc (or .epc) files:
UTM (Formerly ASG) Feature Requests: VPN (172 ideas)

There are a few posts indicating a script may be able to do so. I have downloaded it and run it. It never coimpletes properly, and the .apc file it spits out is always corrupted (or so say Sophos when I try to import it).

Now, I tried creating an SSL VPN Server, save the config file, and then tried to edit it; I couldn't seem to get it top open to be edited... If this is possible, please let me know how.

So... How do I set up this UTM to be an Open VPN client to another server whose settings I have no control over? All the Sophos guides I could find only mentioned creating the VPN server on one device, saving the config file, and using THAT on the "client" device. How can I just config the client device?

Is this even possible with the UTM 9 devices?

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0 BAlfson over 9 years ago

I'm curious, JD. What is the reason for needing the UTM to act as a client?

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0 JohnRobson over 8 years ago in reply to BAlfson

BAlfson wrote the following post at 29 Oct 2015 5:28 PM:

I'm curious, JD. What is the reason for needing the UTM to act as a client?

I'm not looking at a default route - but I have a VPS which has an openVPN server running - allowing for various people/locations to connect and tunnel data to the server, and for some of them to contact between each other.

I can't put Sophos up there, because I couldn't then install any of the things I actually want the VPS for, so it's all hand crafted.

I've previously had my home network connected to the VPN by the firewall (and a couple of rules allowing limited return access), which made life very easy inside the home network. And allowed me to contact the home network from wherever I was by going via the VPS.

I can probably (I haven't tried it from "outside" yet) get to my home network using the SSL VPN - and that will be fine - but I lose the convenience of internal connectivity to my VPS and the other sites which are connected to the VPS.
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0 JohnRobson over 8 years ago in reply to BAlfson

BAlfson wrote the following post at 29 Oct 2015 5:28 PM:

I'm curious, JD. What is the reason for needing the UTM to act as a client?

I'm not looking at a default route - but I have a VPS which has an openVPN server running - allowing for various people/locations to connect and tunnel data to the server, and for some of them to contact between each other.

I can't put Sophos up there, because I couldn't then install any of the things I actually want the VPS for, so it's all hand crafted.

I've previously had my home network connected to the VPN by the firewall (and a couple of rules allowing limited return access), which made life very easy inside the home network. And allowed me to contact the home network from wherever I was by going via the VPS.

I can probably (I haven't tried it from "outside" yet) get to my home network using the SSL VPN - and that will be fine - but I lose the convenience of internal connectivity to my VPS and the other sites which are connected to the VPS.
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