I installed the most recent update for the GL AX1800 and noticed we now have VPN ‘profiles’ and can enable multiple profiles at once, does this mean we can chain link profiles so we’re running say 2 or 3 different VPN locations at once? I’m kind of confused by it. Thanks
Hi
In the v4.8 firmware, we introduced multi-VPN support and enhanced the Policy-Based VPN feature.
With this version, you can run multiple VPN clients simultaneously to different locations, and use Policy-Based VPN to route specific websites or IP addresses through different VPN endpoints/providers.
For more details, please refer to the documentation below:
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Thank you for getting back to me, this sounds like a major development in the Gl.iNet world; I do however have two questions.
How well has this new feature been tested for the danger of IP leaks?
I used this feature for the first time yesterday and the Gl.iNet VPN dashboard on the web interface said the amount of data passed through priority 1 VPN was more than what was passed through priority 2 VPN, shouldn’t the amount of data through them be equal?
It appears there may have been a misunderstanding of your requirements. Are you looking to establish a nested VPN connection—specifically, running a second VPN tunnel through an already active first VPN tunnel?
If so, this "VPN-over-VPN" configuration is not natively supported in the current firmware.
However, a workaround exists that can achieve a similar effect. You can find the technical details and implementation steps in this community discussion:
We have also submitted this to our product team as a formal feature request for evaluation. We hope to include native support for VPN chaining in future firmware versions.
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Yes, this is what I was attempting, priority 1 tunnel was a multihop VPN .conf file which I wanted for my whole network and priority tunnel 2 was a direct VPN .conf
I will look into the linked method you posted but I’m not super smart with this kind of stuff and I don’t want to introduce a possible point of leakage, its probably safest for me to wait for this feature to become a stable feature within a future release
Being able to chain multiple active VPNs together would really be a huge breakthrough, the only way to do it now is to link several routers together
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