openwrt

Well, I finally did it. I was bored and decided to setup PPTPD on my DigitalOcean’s VM and let my OpenWRT router connect to it. This allows me to tunnel using DigitalOcean and enjoy a slightly better international bandwidth via it. The current downfall that I see is that I had to drop my MTU to 1000 in order to get my speed optimized. I’ll still be fiddling around with it to see what works best, but below are the steps done in order to archive it....

PPTP Client on OpenWRT Refresh the OpenWRT’s repository opkg update PPTP client installation opkg install ppp-mod-pptp kmod-pptp kmod-nf-nathelper-extra reboot OpenWRT network configuration config interface 'PPTP_VPN' option proto 'pptp' option server 'pptp.server' option username 'myusername' option password 'mypassword' option defaultroute '0' # not using as default route option peerdns '0' # not using the dns servers (Optional) Adding static routes for connection via your VPN...