Connect QNAP Qvpn Service 3 to AirVPN

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Since I did not find anything that was related to connection from QNAP Qvpn service 3, I wanted to put together a small step by step to have a functioning AirVPN connection from this class of NAS. no SSH connection is needed with this method, so anybody can achieve a connection without being too technical.

These are the setting that worked for me, feel free to let me know if something did not work for you.

open the AirVPN generator page: Config Generator - AirVPN
turn the advanced option on.

Select: 
ip layer exit - ipv4 only
ip layer enter ipv4
openvpn profile 2.6 no-dco
cipher automatic
separate keys-certs

select LinuxOS

Select OPENVPN UDP, but any connection with tls-crypt, tls1.2 should work

Pick your device/connection configuration if needed

Pick your servers or countries

generate and download the files. you should have:

1 - open vpn file
2 - ca.crt
3 - user.crt
4 - user.key
5 - tls-crypt.key

rename the files you just downloaded in this way:

user.crt in client.crt
user.key in client.key

Now, open the openvpn file with any txt editor

change the entries in the list

from user.crt to client.crt
and
from user.key to client.key 

you can paste this if you want:

ca "ca.crt"
cert "client.crt"
key "client.key"

QVPN is not prompting to upload the tls-crypt.key so this element will need to be added in the ovpn file.

to do so, remove the tls-crypt "tls-crypt.key" line from the ovpn file

open and copy the content of the downloaded tls-crypt.key

add it back in pasting the content in this way. of course add your own TLSdecrypt key, this is provide only as example:

<tls-crypt>
-----BEGIN OpenVPN Static key V1-----
hdiugfhjeiu9kfkfk.....


58e692ce09c8282d2770d2bf5c217c06
-----END OpenVPN Static key V1-----
</tls-crypt>

save the file and import all the files in Qvpn.