I have Kong-OpenWRT installed on my R7800. I have NordVPN configured and recently updated the firmware using the following after trial and error which works for my purposes after doing research ... (I've successfully used it in the past)
I updated my R7800 successfully and had an active working NordVPN connection for about 2 days.
Today, I tried to use the internet but realized it was not responding. Poking around I came up on the following which is my main concern because for the life of me I can't seem to get this working
I don't think I did but I just took it down anyway. The files are public and if they are opened within some sort of note editing application any one can view it I believe ...
The config line is supposed to be auth-user-pass /etc/openvpn/secret where secret is the file with the username and password.
@mk24 ... nordvpn instructions does not indicate to have auth-user-pass /etc/openvpn/secret as per there website. I have always just used the "auth-user-pass secret" and had established a connection however I will try your suggestion.
It is best practice not to have any files named *.conf in /etc/openvpn. Convention is to name them .ovpn so you can have more than one and it won't automatically load. Then in /etc/config/openvpn point to the file with an option config. /etc/config/openvpn should be only three lines: