[IPhilGood]

Hello,
I've taken the plunge into the unknown (for me) and am trying to set up a brand new Netgear Nighthawk r7000 as a secondary router to The Orange livebox router provided by my service provider which is orange (we live in France).
Why ?, well I want to flash dd-wrt onto the router so I can use it with NordVPN.

QUESTION 1: When starting to flash 'factory-to-dd-wrt.chk', the GUI said my firmware level was higher than the flash, and that I was to use a modified version....
dd-wrt.K3_R7000_mod.chk worked OK ( I think), so then do I flash the webflash.bin for normal builds or do I flash the K3_AC_ARM_STD.bin file ??? If it's the latter file where do I find it ?

QUESTION 2: I'm referencing the document 'How to build a VPN router' by Nathan Taylor dated Apri 06, 2018.
The information seems to me to be contradictory, should I set the IP address of the new secondary router to 192.168.2.1 or to 192.168.1.20 (refer to instructions on Setup and Setting up the router as a client.

I'm sure I'll have other questions as i learn about all this, so I'll keep the thread open.
i appreciate any advice that will help me.
Regards
Phil

[egc]

Welcome to the forum

A lot of answers can be found in the forum guidelines.
Like in what forum you should post and where to find the latest files.

To get the best out of DDWRT and the forum read the forum guidelines with helpful pointers:
https://forum.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=324087
If you did not already read them please do !

I will transfer your question to the right forum.
If you are already using DDWRT then you use the .bin files for upgrading

[kernel-panic69]

That article tells you to do a 30/30/30, which you do NOT do on Broadcom ARM, especially the R7000. Here is the linked article for everyone following:

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/how-to-build-a-vpn-router

Here is the device wiki, if you didn't already have it:

https://wiki.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Netgear_R7000

P.S. if the reference isn't a forum thread/post or a DD-WRT wiki article, it is garbage since most 'How-tos' on the Internet in respect to this firmware are not maintained.

[IPhilGood]

Thanks for the replies

Good news, it's all working so I'm real happy.

I did the 30/30/30 reset before I got the last reply , and it's still working (phew).
The key for me was getting the cascading right by setting the secondary IP address at 192.168.2.1

Happy holidays