Import VPN admin certificate from RV016 to RV042

[nevzat1967]

Hello,

I've configured VPN to use quickVPN for RV016. The VPN connection works fine. I'm going to install the second SB router RV042

in the same location in order the users should use RV042 instead of RV016. My Question is, is it possible to export the admin

certificate from RV016 Router and import it on RV042 to avoid sending the client certificate of the RV042 to users? If it works then

I need only to replace the ip address on the clients and they connect to RV042 Router.

Many Thanks and best regards

nevzat

[mpyhala]

Hi Nevzat,

Thank you for posting. I believe that every router creates a unique certificate and a certificate from one router will not work with another. The whole point of the certificate is to warn the end user (client) that they may be connecting to the wrong router. If the same certificate worked for multiple routers it would defeat the purpose.

[Te-Kai Liu]

I did test this out and found my RV042 can indeed take the certificate coming out of RV016. But this is definitely not a best practice.

[nevzat1967]

many thanks for your reply. I tested to import the certificate from

RV016 to RV042. I got an error that the certificate does not match. The reason why it not works is the V2 may be.

best regards

nevzat

[Te-Kai Liu]

Did you click "Export for Admin" when you exported the RV016's certificate? Otherwise a certificate for clients cannot be imported to RV042 since it does not contain a private key.