[TriLUG] Home VPN?

[Keith Woodie via TriLUG]

I was a casual reader on this thread and spotted the tailscale
recommendation and I had to try it.  I absolutely love the architecture,
design, and setup of tailscale.  I just dropped my openvpn server on my NAS
and switched over to tailscale personal.  This enabled me to turn off all
of my open ports on my home firewall. If you haven't tried it I highly
recommend giving it a whirl.

Keith Woodie


On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG <
trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> 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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