How to set up X-VPN on DD-WRT routers - OpenVPN

Step 1: Sign in to your X-VPN account on the website: https://xvpn.io/login

Note: Advanced configuration for Router is premium only, please make sure your account is premium.

Free users? Go premium to enjoy advanced benefits.

Step 2: Get your OpenVPN credentials and location configuration

Go to My Account > VPN > VPN on Router, choose OpenVPN, then get credentials (username and Password ) and location configuration.

You need to copy the OpenVPN credentials into relevant fields on your Router, and choose the location configuration you want to connect to, then download the files.

Step 3: Sign in to your DD-WRT account

Open the DD-WRT router control panel on a new tab/page: enter the IP address of your router - http://192.168.1.1/, by default. Also, you can find your router's default gateway here.

Configure as follows:

Start OpenVPN Client: Enable

CVE-2019-14899 Mitigation: Enable

Server IP/Name &Port: Find in [.ovpn] file you download in Step 2

[.ovpn] file example

Tunnel Device: TUN

Tunnel Protocol: UDP

Encryption Cipher: AES-256-CBC

Hash Algorithm: SHA1

First Data Cipher: AES-256-CBC

Second Data Cipher: AES-256-GCM

Third Data Cipher: AES-128-CBC

User Pass Authentication: Enable

Username & Password: Enter Username and Password you got in Step 2

Advanced Options: Enable

TLS Cipher: None

Compression: Disabled

NAT: Enable

Inbound Firewall on TUN: Check

IP Address: -

Subnet Mask: -

Tunnel MTU setting: Default

Tunnel UDP Fragment: -

Tunnel UDP MSS-Fix: Disable

Verify Server Cert: Uncheck

TLS Key choice: TLS Auth

TLS Key: -

Additional Config: -

policy based Routing: -

PKCS12 Key: -

Static Key: -

Configure the following three "keys" fields with content in the [.ovpn] file you download in Step2:

Copy the certificate and paste it into Certificate Authority

Copy the certificate and paste it into Client Certificate

Copy the certificate and paste it into Client Key

Certificate Authority in [.ovpn] file                                                   Client Certificate in [.ovpn] file

     Client Key in [.ovpn] file

SoftEther VPN

Server: Disable

Bridge: Disable

Client: Disable

Config: -

Well done! Click "Save" to save the configuration, then click "Apply Settings".

Step 5: Check and configure DNS

Navigate to "Setup > "Basic Setup"
Make sure the DNS server is not blocked, you may fill following DNS servers in the Static DNS 1/2/3 field, filling each one with a different DNS Server:

8.8.8.8

8.8.4.4

208.67.222.222

208.67.222.220

8.26.56.26

8.20.2247.20

209.244.0.3

208.244.0.4

Then click "Save" & "Apply Settings" at the bottom of the page! You are all set now!

Step 6: Reboot your router to connect

Reboot your router and wait for a minute or two for everything to settle, then check the status of the OpenVPN client in "Status" > "OpenVPN", if the values are not zero, the OpenVPN is connected. Also, You may visit this site to verify that your IP address has changed!