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
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
I’m using OpenWRT and liking it so far, find a suitable router and have full control of your network
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.
Just one clarification. It is not an easy router like D-Link, TP-Link etc. It is more advanced.
And Ubiquiti has updated the firmware since 2015
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?
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.
Why do you need a VPN and not a reverse proxy and dyndns?
My setup uses some docker containers to:
- Update my WAN IP with cloudflare every 60s
- Nginx proxy manager to map URLs to services running on my host server
- Port forwarding to route traffic to the correct container
- Cloudflare zero trust or baked in app authentication
