Site-to-Site VPN between on premise network and Azure using DD_WRT and Entware / StrongSwan – part 4 of 5

Introduction This is Part 4 of the series of articles about setting up site-to-site VPN between on premise LAN and Azure. Here you can learn how to install and configure strongSwan. If you missed the Part 3 please check it out here: Site-to-Site VPN between on premise network and Azure using DD_WRT and Entware / StrongSwan … Read more

Site-to-Site VPN between on premise network and Azure using DD_WRT and Entware / StrongSwan – part 3 of 5

Introduction This is Part 3 of the series of articles about setting up site-to-site VPN between on premise LAN and Azure where you will learn how to install Entware-ng-3x. Entware-ng-3x is a fork of Entware-ng and it uses a newer 3.x kernels to build the toolchain. If you missed the Part 2 please check it out here: … Read more

Site-to-Site VPN between on premise network and Azure using DD_WRT and Entware / StrongSwan – part 2 of 5

Introduction This is Part 2 of the series of articles about setting up site-to-site VPN between on premise LAN and Azure. If you missed the Part 1 please check it out here: Site-to-Site VPN between on premise network and Azure using DD_WRT and Entware / StrongSwan – part 1 of 5 In Part you you … Read more

Site-to-Site VPN between on premise network and Azure using DD_WRT and Entware / StrongSwan – part 1 of 5

Introduction This article describes how to set up a site-to-site VPN between a home network and Azure using a consumer-grade wireless router. Once completed this will allow you to access the resources (virtual machines, databases, etc. ) in Azure as if they were part of your  home LAN. You can also access the resources on … Read more

Combining a key and certificate into a .pfx file

If you want to use SSL with your site in Azure you need to have a .pfx file. We Apache you most likely have a certificate and a private key. I am using certificate from Letsencrypt. Using openssl you can generate the .pfx file like this: openssl pkcs12 -export -out /tmp/certificate.pfx -inkey /etc/letsencrypt/live/yourdomain.tld/privkey.pem -in /etc/letsencrypt/live/yourdomain.tld/cert.pem … Read more