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PiVPN with Wireguard or Router with Wireguard server capability (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by jdiz133@alien.top to c/homenetworking@selfhosted.forum

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So. I will preface. I am very new, but have been watching a ton of YouTube videos at this subs recommendation. THANKS!

I am looking to set up a vpn server and then also have a client router that I can connect to so all devices connected to that router will feed to my home vpn server. Think digital nomad, not allowed out of the country. (I know. I know but will be for 4 days a week, so I’ll be back at home the other 3 to fix anything).

I have been looking at wire guard solutions and it seems there are 2 good solutions for a noob like me.

Buy a raspberry PI and set up a Wireguard server and then have my client router route all traffic through it. Or purchase 2 routers with wire guard server already built in (need to configure)

Are there any recommendations as to what may be better from a stability and ability to set up stand point.

Apologies if I have made any mistakes here. Any advice is sincerely appreciated.

A homenetworking noob

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[–] MrMotofy@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

There's multiple ways to do it. Any computer basically can run Wireguard. As well as Zeroteir, Tailscale, Twingate, Openziti and more...which all are based on Wireguard. But arguably easier to set up/manage. I went the open router option which has the option to use Tailscale as a pkg as well as OpenVPN and I also have a Zeroteir connection I can use. One of the easiest is run Zeroteir on a device on your local network and on your remote device to default access and share remotely. You can change some settings to switch it from a split vpn to a full tunnel if you want depending on your needs.

Theres open router operating systems like OpnSense that will run on about anything and allow running of Tailscale right on the router giving full network access if desired without any extra systems running.

In tailscale it's similar and just needs a bit more configuration to setup the local network as the exit node. That will allow full tunnel to it so remote devices show like you're home. But you're limited by the upload of your home internet. If you want to be split, you can just select to disconnect from exit node and it will be split so normal speeds of your internet wherever you are remotely. But network traffic still runs over the Tailnet. So it's easy to switch back and forth.