On Mon, 28 Dec 2020 12:46:56 +0000
Chris Green  wrote:

> druck  wrote:

> > Asus router support OpenVPN client and server out of the box. Any
> > router supported by OpenWrt is also OK.
> >
> If a router 'supports VPN' what does that actually mean?

 There are many varieties of VPN using different protocols OpenVPN
is just one of them (other common ones are IPSec and PPTP), many consider
it the best of them.

> Presumably it doesn't mean that the router runs as a VPN server, or
> does it?

 It might depending on what support is on the router - nearly all
routers will act as PPTP client not so many as anything else. As mentioned
above Asus and routers running OpenWrt support OpenVPN both as client and
server.

> If my router supports VPN (which it does, a Draytek 2860N) and I
> enable it what else needs to happen to make it useful?  ... and what

 I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure the Draytek routers only
support being a PPTP client so that they can connect you to a corporate
VPN. To be certain you'd have to look in the Draytek documentation.

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