I have a Mac mini at home running Mac OS Sierra 10.12.1 and Server 5.2 configured with an L2TP VPN server. I can connect to it using my iPhone 6 running iOS 10.1.1 by configuring a L2TP VPN with the server, account, password and secret for my Mac mini, giving me access to other devices on my home LAN and, because the Mac is configured for Internet Connection Sharing, my iPhone can get out onto the Internet with my home broadband IP address. Essentially it gives me my very own http://strongvpn.com/amer-anywhere.html type service. So far so good.
I also have a TP-Link WR703N running OpenWRT Chaos Calmer 15.05.01 which I've set up as a wifi-to-ethernet bridge: the wifi side is connected to a wifi network that gives access to the Internet and the ethernet port is connected to my laptop. This allows my laptop to get internet access through its ethernet port. Also hunky-dorey.
The thing I want to do is get the WR703N to connect to the L2TP VPN on my Mac mini so that my laptop can route through the Mac to devices on my home LAN, and use ICS to get out onto the Internet using my home broadband IP address.
I did some searching and found https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/connect_by_l2tp which appears to be exactly what I want, but after running
opkg update
and then
opkg install openl2tp-full
I get the error
Unknown package 'openl2tp-full'.
. Running
opkg find *l2tp*
doesn't show any near misses, so now I'm a bit stuck, as all my searches for
openwrt l2tp vpn client
find articles about setting up openwrt was a VPN server.
Can someone please point me in the right direction? Thanks!
(Last edited by kbro on 27 Nov 2016, 23:50)