Hi Folks,
I've been doing battle with getting Oeck VPN working on Draytek routers on and off for ages, never really been a problem for me though as I had other VPN service to fill in the gap and the app works great on the PC and Android devices.
Started holidays last week and getting this sorted was on my list of things to do, and now its done, yay
The issue I had was the config I downloaded from Oeck was being rejected by the Draytek modem for being too large, literally oversize.
Its a stupid thing, and one of the few things I dislike about the Draytek range, but they have stupid limits on things like character limits in username fields as well as password size limits.
Names of firewall objects can be max of 12 characters etc. Just silly things.
Anyways, after a bit of stuffing around I was able to get Oeck working on the DrayTek 2865 I have by removing a part of the config file to reduce its size. Once I did that the Draytek happily imported the cfg file and worked.
I removed the section starting with " X509v3 Extended Key Usage:" (starts a bit below half way down the page) and stopping before the "-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----" section allowed me to import the cfg to the Draytek without errors, and successfully connect.
Speed wasn't great initially but after a bit of experimentation I found the exporting a cfg file with Linux-Sydney-UDP AES-128-CBC settings worked the best for my device, giving me the same speeds as any of the other VPN service, topping out at approx. 85% of my connection speed.
I just thought I'd shared this info case anyone else hits the same hurdle as I did, I've also attached a copy of the cfg that works best on my Draytek as well as a screen grab of the Draytek Lan to Lan config page with the working settings displayed.
Cheers,
dooley
I've been doing battle with getting Oeck VPN working on Draytek routers on and off for ages, never really been a problem for me though as I had other VPN service to fill in the gap and the app works great on the PC and Android devices.
Started holidays last week and getting this sorted was on my list of things to do, and now its done, yay
The issue I had was the config I downloaded from Oeck was being rejected by the Draytek modem for being too large, literally oversize.
Its a stupid thing, and one of the few things I dislike about the Draytek range, but they have stupid limits on things like character limits in username fields as well as password size limits.
Names of firewall objects can be max of 12 characters etc. Just silly things.
Anyways, after a bit of stuffing around I was able to get Oeck working on the DrayTek 2865 I have by removing a part of the config file to reduce its size. Once I did that the Draytek happily imported the cfg file and worked.
I removed the section starting with " X509v3 Extended Key Usage:" (starts a bit below half way down the page) and stopping before the "-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----" section allowed me to import the cfg to the Draytek without errors, and successfully connect.
Speed wasn't great initially but after a bit of experimentation I found the exporting a cfg file with Linux-Sydney-UDP AES-128-CBC settings worked the best for my device, giving me the same speeds as any of the other VPN service, topping out at approx. 85% of my connection speed.
I just thought I'd shared this info case anyone else hits the same hurdle as I did, I've also attached a copy of the cfg that works best on my Draytek as well as a screen grab of the Draytek Lan to Lan config page with the working settings displayed.
Cheers,
dooley
