Hello, I want to setup a VPN to dial up my home. I’m having trobules with my WRT3200ACM, and other firmwares aren’t working fine for me due to the oddities of this particular router.

Would you recommend me another router? I’d like to setup an OpenVPN or Wireward + some dynamic DNS updater in it.

thanks

  • WreckingBANG
    9·
    1 year ago

    I would recommend just using a RaspberryPi and host it yourself. I never had any issues and it was the most reliable way for me

    • gkd
      2·
      1 year ago

      I can second this. The only issue out of the box from my experience was getting speeds over 100Mbps working over WiFi, takes a bit of configuring (at least it did for my router).

  • WigglingWalrus@feddit.uk
    4·
    1 year ago

    Do you have any other requirements for the router? Or just to be able to run a VPN? When you say VPN, are you looking just to encrypt your home network (create your own VPN) or to use a paid service? E.g. VPN client or server?

    • Diego@lemm.eeOP
      3·
      1 year ago

      I’m looking to dial in my home to reach some servers I expect to have running there. I could go the raspberry way, but I’d prefer it to be a router. I have some cloud servers for my own development that I’d like to host myself And maybe one of those services would be exposed.

      • WigglingWalrus@feddit.uk
        2·
        1 year ago

        Most decent routers should support that. I personally use a Unifi Dream Machine which I can’t fault. Previously used a Nighthawk router which also supported it.

  • amenotef@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 year ago

    I created mine using “Edgerouter X”. Wireguard VPN. But I don’t use it a lot because I’m currently WFH.

    I really liked this router.

  • Bldck@beehaw.org
    21·
    1 year ago

    Why do you need a VPN and not a reverse proxy and dyndns?

    My setup uses some docker containers to:

    1. Update my WAN IP with cloudflare every 60s
    2. Nginx proxy manager to map URLs to services running on my host server
    3. Port forwarding to route traffic to the correct container
    4. Cloudflare zero trust or baked in app authentication
    • Diego@lemm.eeOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      Looking forward to use some services that cannot be routed through nginx

  • bogo@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    1 year ago

    Take a look at Tailscale. You can probably do what you want using that and basically any router out there since it’s zero-config in the router, you’re hardware independent.

    • Diego@lemm.eeOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      I use tailscale currently. It’s amazing, but I need just a little bit more