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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 perhaps 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?

Edit: I settled on Netbird. Thank you for your help!

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[–] Auli@twit.social 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

@Flax_vert I don't get the hate of poet forwarding. Wireguard is very secure and if it doesn't get the handshake port just shoes as closed.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because if my router factory resets, the ports are closed

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

The more open ports, the larger the attack surface.

That's all.

And today with the script kiddies out there, port scans happen all the time.

I've had a consumer router become almost useless from all the attempted connections on an open port someone found that I had up for a week.

Months later I'd still get hits on that port though it had been closed.

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

There are ~50,000-60,000+ available IP ports. If you had Wireguard configured correctly and running on every single one of them a port scanner would get exactly the same result as if every port was closed. Wireguard is completely silent unless the correct key is provided.

The "script kiddies" could scan every port for months and they'd get the same result. There is known no way to even know there's an open port much less know that Wireguard is running on it AND have the correct key for access.

I understand being gun shy after your experience (I would be too), but that experience has nothing to do with what happens when you open a port for Wireguard.