Remoting into home network options

[anon29374801]

@OldGuy

The original purpose of a VPN was exactly for this: To remotely access the office network. Or in your case, you home network. Any reason you don’t want to use the tool that was designed for exactly this situation?

See..

@anon29374801

no. I probably should of just left that qualifier out. At the time that was the solution I was finding the most on my own, so i didn’t want a bunch of responses that had tools I had already seen.

@obscuracarl

For setting up your own WireGuard config, I highly recommend Pro Custodibus’ blog posts

Thanks for the info, super helpful!

[jacek-kubek]

What about MeshCentral?

[anon29374801]

@phnx

Netbird

@HauntSanctuary

Tailscale, Zerotier

My understanding is that these options are wireguard under the hood in some way, please correct me if I am wrong. My question is if computers on the network are also using an always on VPN, such as Proton or Mullvad would this cause issues? From what I can tell its not recommended (Mullvad through Tailscale being an exception). Does this mean something like RustDesk is probably a better option? Or possibly @jacek-kubek MeshCentral ?

[HauntSanctuary (Privacy is Undead)]

I use Wireguard with ProtonVPN. Its a bit slow and honestly I do not know who is at fault here (my ISP included).

[phnx]

Netbird and Tailscale use Wireguard; Zerotier does not. The difference is that Wireguard is layer 3 while Zerotier is layer 2. This is the technical difference I was referring to, but for most use cases, the difference won’t matter.

I would configure the private space / work profile on your phone to connect to your home network via Netbird. Then you can either have Proton / Mullvad configured on your router or just block internet traffic completely from Netbird clients. Alternatively, you can tunnel all your traffic on your device to your home network with a VPN on your router, but that makes changing exit servers more cumbersome.

[anon29374801]

@phnx would using the routing peer function in Netbird instead of port forwarding for something like Plex be considered more secure or private in anyway or is it just a matter of preference?

It does seem like there is a benefit to not having to allow remote connections or open a port.

Been thinking about this with all the Media suggestions in the forum recently.

[deer]

One thing I was wondering about was how to use Tailscale for home network access as well as a traditional vpn in a non-cludgy way. I think most OSes limit you to one vpn connection at a time.

I saw that Mullvad has an integration with Tailscale but I haven’t given that a try yet. (Currently using Proton) I have some questions about how it works that I haven’t gotten to dive into yet, namely does it try to route all traffic through your router or only “local” traffic, and what happens if said router goes down.

Option 2 would be running Tailscale in a work profile/private space/second user but I don’t know how annoying that would be, and plus I think that’s only android only, at least of the operating systems I use.

[HauntSanctuary (Privacy is Undead)]

@deer

I saw that Mullvad has an integration with Tailscale but I haven’t given that a try yet.

Its not globally available apparently (they have a github page with this issue of non-availability globally)

[alt43 (alt43.es)]

Personally, I use both the VPN server built into the router and Cloudflare tunnels with my own domain. The first option seems more private to me; the second allows me to add redundancy.