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Originally Posted by wh33t
I find myself needing to VPN into my home network. (...)
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The OP was referring to establishing a VPN connection to his/her house, not to a VPN provider. I have set this up using OpenVPN and I am very happy with it. Once set up it is speedy and rock solid. I tried setting up WireGuard but it did not work for me (of course it is me not WireGuard).
As I have an ISP that values my privacy in a big way so I am sure my data is not sold to anyone however it occurred to me that this is not for everyone. However if you have set up your router to have outbound traffic to be routed through a VPN you might be OK using a separate inbound VPN because e.g. the laptop you connect to the OpenVPN server will get assigned a normal IP address within the LAN and from there will access the internet just as any other computer or device on that LAN.
laptop --0==(inbound VPN)==OpenVPN server=0--LAN--0=router==VPN provider=0--internet
One caveat I had problems with: When using OpenVPN please make sure you don't want to access data on the machine running the OpenVPN server, because access to the machine that is running is blocked as a safety precaution. No problem for me, I use a single board computer running some backup tasks that also runs the OpenVPN server.
On the phone side: on iOS I think you can just put all the details in de VPN tab in the iPhone settings. On Android you need to download the OpenVPN client. I found the best way to set it all up was to send the configuration file that the OpenVPN server creates to configure the clients to the phone. Then setting up the phone was quick and without effort.
You can find a nice tutorial here:
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/ubuntu...-in-5-minutes/
2020 - Wireguard over OpenVPN right?
