Customize OPENVPN profile for Mikrotik client

Mikrotik support for vpn is quite versatile with several VPN clients/server setups to chose from,among them OPENVPN.

Facts to grasp before deployment of the openvpn:

Lacks support for

• udp
• lzo compression
• tls
• sha512

While deploying the ovpn file,make sure tls is disabled and the tls certificate absent.

Sample ovpn client for mikrotik

client
dev tun
proto tcp
remote PUBLIC IP PORT
resolv-retry infinite
nobind
persist-key
persist-tun
auth SHA1
cipher AES-256-CBC
ignore-unknown-option block-outside-dns
verb 3
—–BEGIN CERTIFICATE—– CA —–END CERTIFICATE—–

—–BEGIN CERTIFICATE—– cert—–END CERTIFICATE—–

—–BEGIN PRIVATE KEY—– Key—–END PRIVATE KEY—–