Virtual Private Networks (VPN) OpenVPN
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5. The OpenVPN client is enabled by default. To disable, click Enable.
6. The default behavior is to use an OVPN file for client configuration. To disable this behavior and
configure the client manually, click Use .ovpn file to disable.
7. For Device type, select the mode used by the OpenVPN server, either TUNor TAP.
8. For Zone, select the firewall zone for the OpenVPN client.
9. (Optional) Select the Metric for the OpenVPN client. If multiple active routes match a
destination, the route with the lowest metric will be used.
10. (Optional) For Username and Password, type the login credentials as configured on the
OpenVPN server.
11. For VPN server IP, type the IP address of the OpenVPN server.
12. (Optional) Set the VPN port used by the OpenVPN server. The default is 1194.
13. Paste the contents of the CA certificate (usually in a ca.crt file), the Public key (for example,
client.crt), and the Private key (for example, client.key) into their respective fields. The
contents will be hidden when the configuration is saved.
14. (Optional) Click to expand Advanced Options to manually set additional OpenVPN
parameters.
a. Click Enable to enable the use of additional OpenVPN parameters.
b. Click Override if the additional OpenVPN parameters should override default options.
c. For OpenVPN parameters, type the additional OpenVPN parameters. For example, to
override the configuration by using a configuration file, enter --config filename, for
example, --config /etc/config/openvpn_config.
15. Click Apply to save the configuration and apply the change.