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So basically, I will be away from home for several weeks. Unfortunately, this became the perfect time for our home router to start acting out and factory resetting itself. We are awaiting a new router for replacement, but the time is tight.

My stuff is ethernetted in, so that connectivity isn't an issue - the issue is that I couldn't actually connect to the router to restore services even if it had internet by fixing all the settings including port forwarding.

What I would like would be the ability to have a VPN connected to my homelab, so I can hop on the router and restore the settings if this issue happens while I'm away. Any ideas?

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[–] matron1049@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Tailscale would work as another user said. You could run TOR too. I've got a TOR service that I can SSH into for "plan b" if my VPN is down. It doesn't need port forwarding.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 0 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Tailscale or headscale if you have a VPS.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Even without a VPS Tailscale will work fine after the router resets.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Oh yes absolutely. I actually have Tailscale installed on a pfsense machine in several data centers with no up overlap and routed subnets. Works like a dream. I finally convinced work we needed to buy this. It just works too well.

But for headscale, which is essentially just a self-hosted tailscale, you should probably have a machine somewhere on the public internet to coordinate it all.