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Topic: VPN through routed/unbridged repeater

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I have an openwrt router that succesfully connects to a public hotspot.
Because the hotspot has a captive portal, I have created a script, within the router, that authenticates the router to the captive portal/hotspot. Thanks to the unbridged configuration, all devices connecting to my router are able to access internet without authentication.
Till here, everything works fine.

I want to create a VPN connection from a local device (connected to the openwrt router) to a remote router (on internet) that acts as VPN server.
It works when the device is connected to internet from other locations.
It does not work in this unbridged repeating mode.

Is there something I can try on the openwrt router to let it work?
(port forwarding, disable firewall, static route, dmz, ???)
I am not so expert in networking ...

What I don't want to do is to bridge the repeater because I would loose the advantage of having the router authenticating for all appended devices.

Thanks in advance.

What error do you get? Bring the log of VPN-client.

I am using an android smartphone and/or an Ipad ... I am not sure they log errors in a file .. Are they?

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