How to set up X-VPN on Tomato 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 > Router Settings > Choose "Tomato" under OpenVPN, then get credentials (username and Password ) and location configuration.

If you are setting up the Router for the first time, you will see the following page when you click Router Settings:Choose "Tomato" under OpenVPN > Tap "Generate your router configuration", then you can get to the Router Settings page as we mentioned above.

Step 3: Sign in to your router account

Open your Tomato 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.

The username and password are "admin" by default unless you've changed it. You can find the logins on the label at the bottom of the router as well.

Step 4: Configure Basic information of the OpenVPN client

Navigate to "VPN Tunneling" > "OpenVPN Client" > "Basic"Configure as follows:

Enable on Start: Check if you want to run OpenVPN at Router start up

Interface Type: TUN

Protocol: UDP

Server Address/Port: Find in [.ovpn] file you download in Step 2

[.ovpn] file example

Firewall: Automatic

Create NAT on tunnel: Check

Inbound Firewall: Check

Authorization Mode: TLS

TLS control channel: Disable

Username/Password Authentication: Check. Enter Username and Password you got in Step 2

Auth digest: SHA1

Well done! Then to the next step.

Step 5: Configure Advanced information of the OpenVPN client

Navigate to "VPN Tunneling" > "OpenVPN Client" > "Advanced"Configure as follows:

Poll interval: 0

Redirect Internet traffic: No

Accept DNS configuration: Disable

Data ciphers: Use Default, if empty, enter: CHACHA20-POLY1305:AES-128-GCM:AES-256-GCM:AES-128-CBC:AES-256-CBC

Compression: Disable

TLS Renegotiation Time: -1

Connection retry: 30

Verify Certificate: Unchecked

Verify Server Certificate: No

Custom Configuration:

cipher AES-256-CBC

remap-usr1 SIGHUP

Well done! Then to the next step.

Step 6: Configure the Keys information of the OpenVPN client

Navigate to "VPN Tunneling" > "OpenVPN Client" > "Keys"

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

1. Copy the certificate and paste it into Certificate Authority
2. Copy the certificate and paste it into Client Certificate
3. Copy the certificate and paste it into Client Key

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

   Client Key in [.ovpn] file

Well done! Click "Save" to save configuration, then click " Start Now" to boot OpenVPN, it may take some time.

Step 7: Check the connection and know how to disconnect

Navigate to "VPN Tunneling" > "OpenVPN Client" > "Status", if the values are changing, the OpenVPN is connected. Also, You may visit this site to verify that your IP address has changed!

If you want to disconnect X-VPN, select "Stop Now"!

Step 8: Check and configure DNS.

Go to"Basic > "Network"Make sure the DNS server is not blocked, you may fill DNS1 and DNS2 servers with the following open-source DNS servers:
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" at the bottom of the page! Well done, you are all set!