[TriLUG] Home VPN?

[Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG]

On Thu, 20 Feb 2025, Matthew Glassman via TriLUG wrote:

> What I?m looking to do is to create some thing allows me to remote into 
> my home network

I use openvpn. Your remote laptop gets an IP in your home network. You 
appear to be at home (maybe all vpns do that).

The setup script is a bit mysterious and cryptic, but I got it to work 
eventually. This was back about 15 years ago, when openvpn was the only 
thing. I set the certificates to expire in 10 years and forgot about them. 
I was miffed one day to find unexpectedly that openvpn, which had worked 
reliably for so long, just didn't work anymore. I just reran the setup 
script to make new certificates that expired in another 10 years.

My son suggested Wireguard, but I couldn't figure out how to set it up (I 
couldn't figure out how it worked either). It was just easier to generate 
new certificates for openvpn.

Joe

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