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How to access home network (eg, VPN) without port forwarding? (feddit.uk)
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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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[–] kokomo@lemmy.kokomo.cloud 5 points 2 days ago (6 children)

In addition to Netbird, I also suggest Pangolin, https://pangolin.net/ it's quite efficient at what it does.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I’m keep thinking at some point tailscale is going to incorporate a feature similar to pangolin. I mean pangolin is just a proxy server tied to wireguard ( or newt). You can also do very similar things with cloudflare.

[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tailscale already does though, I think.

https://tailscale.com/docs/features/tailscale-funnel

Although it might work differently.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Sorta. This opens up a Tailscale node to the world with their weird names. I want my own custom domain pointing to Tailscale endpoints like pangolin does. So the funnel is very close you’re right, but needs a tiny bit more.

[–] kokomo@lemmy.kokomo.cloud 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

True, but the point is you don't need cloudflare or tailscale (i know headscale exists), so end to end you can likely trust it.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I much prefer things self-hosted. I was just saying I wouldn’t be surprised if tailscale offers something similar to pangolin.

[–] kokomo@lemmy.kokomo.cloud 1 points 1 day ago

Ahh, thank you for clarifying. Sorry :/

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