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Paid VPN service Nord VPN
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2014 7:48 pm
by dmjita
I am using a dlink dsl-2640b as modem and a rb750g as router everything work fine. Now i bought a vpn service to avoid some limitation about my adsl. NordVPN support ppptp (not very secure) l2tp (better security) open vpn (best security?). I tried to configure my router to connect using ppptp, i was able to connect but not to use vpn, l2tp and open vpn i was not able to connect. I saw few guide but i was not able to make it work. Someone had experience with NordVPN or have some guide to link ? Thanks for your help.
Re: Paid VPN service Nord VPN
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2014 12:31 pm
by NordVPN
Hello, thank you for using NordVPN service.
OpenVPN will not be possible to set up due to technical reasons - our service does not use user certificate for the authentication.
Nevertheless, it would be a shame if you could not use great features that we offer due to the setup issues. That is why we suggest you to get a router that supports DD-WRT firmware. You would then be able to use our top-notch security tools like: Double VPN, Tor over VPN, 2048bit SSL encryption and the no logs policy.
Re: Paid VPN service Nord VPN
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2014 9:27 pm
by dmjita
Awwww. i really hoped this could work. I can't change my router. Is it possible to have a guide to set up a l2tp connection? My routerboard is quite powerful and flexible router, honestly i don't want to change it with a router with ddwrt. Thanks you replied me but i think a lot of people in this forum will like to know that NordVpn is a good choice too for vpn service. If openvpn is not possible l2tp is possible?
Re: Paid VPN service Nord VPN
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 9:15 pm
by dmjita
This is so strange, when i asked their customers service if my router was supported they said yes (using the chat on their website), now they say change it..... this is confusing.
Re: Paid VPN service Nord VPN
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2017 7:55 pm
by spacemind
It dont think nordvpn Openvpn is going to work with mikrotik, but if you found a way to get it working please share
Mikrotik uses TCP only (that is supported by nordvpn), needs server certificate, client certificate and key (nordvpn does not have client certificate and key that you can import) and comp-lzo is not supported by mikrotik too.
Re: Paid VPN service Nord VPN
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2017 6:52 pm
by KydeX
Has anyone done anything more with NordVPN on this? I'd like to route traffic from specific ports through the NordVPN account that I have.
Re: Paid VPN service Nord VPN
Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2017 4:13 pm
by HarvSki
I'd like to do this as well, I cannot get the solution posted on NordVPN's site for MikroTik to work as the VPN isn't connecting although the traffic marking and routing does work (with other VPNs I've tested)
Re: Paid VPN service Nord VPN
Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2017 4:05 pm
by harvey
I'd like to do this as well, I cannot get the solution posted on NordVPN's site for MikroTik to work as the VPN isn't connecting although the traffic marking and routing does work (with other VPNs I've tested)
I can get NordVPN working only with L2TP/IPSec and only with certain servers, I was provided with three servers in the USA that work, trying to get details of European based servers that will work.
My setup works as follows:-
/ip ipsec peer
add address=181.215.110.128/32 comment="Nord VPN USA 494" dh-group=modp1024 enc-algorithm=3des exchange-mode=main-l2tp \
secret=nordvpn
/interface l2tp-client
add comment="Nord VPN USA 494" connect-to=181.215.110.128 disabled=no name=nord-l2tp-out1 password=myNordPassword user=\
my@email.com
add action=mark-routing chain=prerouting comment="Nord Push client 10.1.1.100 through VPN" new-routing-mark=\
nordvpn-l2tp passthrough=no src-address=10.1.1.100
/ip firewall filter
add action=accept chain=forward comment="Allow outbound to NordVPN, you may not need this but due to my VLAN setup I require it" out-interface=nord-l2tp-out1 src-address=10.1.1.100
/ip route
add distance=1 gateway=nord-l2tp-out1 routing-mark=nordvpn-l2tp
You can check the connection status with:-
/interface l2tp-client monitor nord-l2tp-out1
;;; Nord VPN USA 494
status: connected
uptime: 57s
encoding:
mtu: 1450
mru: 1450
local-address: 10.9.9.11
remote-address: 10.9.9.1
They recommended using the IP address of servers instead of DNS name. I also had issues with my email address and password so had to simplify the password to remove some extra special characters.
However the speed is not great, I'm hoping when I get a closer server to work it may help.
Re: Paid VPN service Nord VPN
Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2017 8:44 pm
by JimmyNyholm
Hello, thank you for using NordVPN service.
OpenVPN will not be possible to set up due to technical reasons - our service does not use user certificate for the authentication.
Nevertheless, it would be a shame if you could not use great features that we offer due to the setup issues. That is why we suggest you to get a router that supports DD-WRT firmware. You would then be able to use our top-notch security tools like: Double VPN, Tor over VPN, 2048bit SSL encryption and the no logs policy.
Isn't there a DD image for metarouter?
Re: Paid VPN service Nord VPN
Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2017 9:02 pm
by MattyBoy4444
What 3 servers did you get to work?
Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk
Re: Paid VPN service Nord VPN
Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2017 12:11 pm
by alexfn
Hi,
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My setup works as follows:-
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In this setup, your l2tp runs *without* IPSEC, even you have configured the latter.
Re: Paid VPN service Nord VPN
Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2017 2:56 pm
by paca
Hi Guys,
I'm trying to connect my router (RB3011) to NordVPN.
After many emails exchanged with NordVPN support, I got this reply:
"Your router natively supports only PPTP protocol. We do support these protocols, but they are unstable, insecure and outdated. For that reason we do not recommend using it if you value your security. Also, we are dropping the support for this protocol day by day, thus in the upcoming months they will not be supported anymore. Our newest servers are already not supporting it.
Instability comes from the fact that both of these services are using pppd daemon which sometimes gets stuck and is unable to allow new users to connect to the server. Unfortunately we cannot do anything about that and the only thing you could try is connecting to multiple different servers. This is also the reason we are recommending everyone to upgrade their equipment so that they would be able to use OpenVPN.
If you do decide to use them anyways - please do that at your own risk."
So, I don't see a bright future in matching Mikrotik with NordVPN, since neither Mikrotik shows any willingness to update their OpenVPN implementation ... which has an impressive list of unsupported features.
My question is: does anyone knows a VPN service which works well with Mikrotik routers?
Thanks!
Re: Paid VPN service Nord VPN
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 1:02 am
by tinus
I finally get connected to NordVPN L2TP/IPSec, below is the configuration
/interface l2tp-client
add add-default-route=yes connect-to=NordVPNIP disabled=\
no name=l2tp-out2 password=NordvpnPassword profile=\
default user=NordvpnEmailAccount
/ip ipsec peer
add address=NordVPNIP dh-group=modp1024 \
dpd-interval=10s enc-algorithm=3des exchange-mode=main-l2tp \
generate-policy=port-strict secret=nordvpn
/ip ipsec proposal
set [ find default=yes ] enc-algorithms=3des pfs-group=none
/ip ipsec policy
add dst-address=NordVPNIP/32 dst-port=1701 protocol=udp src-address=\
yourPublicIp/32 src-port=1701
Re: Paid VPN service Nord VPN
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 8:07 pm
by 3D9iWC5pFevQ
Can anybody confirm that mikrotik requires BOTH user/pass AND certificate? My VPN supports only uses user/pass without certificate.