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Build your own private WireGuard VPN with PiVPN
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Re: Build your own private WireGuard VPN with PiVPN
#52I do tailscale. wireguard and having to host an entrypoint is too much trouble
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#53Before going to a long 3 month trip to Asia last year, I installed WireGuard on my Raspberry Pi 1 (original model B from 2012) which was running at home in US. I found PiVPN to be the easiest way to install Wireguard. I didn't know if I even needed a VPN but I was glad, and I was able to use internet as if I were at home. It was weird, but a lot of sites are blocked oversea, even though it shouldn't. For example, I c…
I also did something similar, plus all my home automation which is 98% local-first|only. My trip was just 3 weeks but on the first day leaving, between one plane and another, my power company had a 4hours extraordinary maintenance cut, my UPS didn't last enough and with that blackout the RPi SD card died, and I was locked out my LAN for all the trip.
Lesson learned: configure the UPS to communicate with the servers and shut them down in a controlled manner when batteries are dying.
Re: Build your own private WireGuard VPN with PiVPN
#54And then you hit CPU bottlenecks whenever you do literally anything bandwidth intensive. The limits of using hobbyist hardware, you get hobbyist level performance. A Raspberry Pi is a horrible solution for running Wireguard. You can get a tiny 1L PC running on an actual Intel or AMD processor with far more perf/$.
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Re: Build your own private WireGuard VPN with PiVPN
#55Before going to a long 3 month trip to Asia last year, I installed WireGuard on my Raspberry Pi 1 (original model B from 2012) which was running at home in US. I found PiVPN to be the easiest way to install Wireguard. I didn't know if I even needed a VPN but I was glad, and I was able to use internet as if I were at home. It was weird, but a lot of sites are blocked oversea, even though it shouldn't. For example, I c…
I don't know first hand, nor am I speaking for my employer (who happens to be one of the two companies you mentioned), but if it was me, I would assume that if my company doesn't do business outside of the United States, then may as well deny traffic for services that wouldn't be available outside of the United States, since it is more often than not problematic traffic. This means sometimes legit traffic would be in…
> it is a realistic scenario that the small amount of legit pain is worth the incredibly reduced risk footprint.
Well, I guess it depends on the type of attacks one experiences, but hackers and spammers who target US-based businesses are not idiots, they know how to use vpns and tor and proxies. So on a technical level you get close to nothing security-wise. You reduce a number of bots and worms randomly accessing your servers, can stop some script kiddies who don't know better and make life a bit harder to web scrapers (but not much) - and that's it.
Re: Build your own private WireGuard VPN with PiVPN
#56Base wireguard is pretty easy to setup, especially with wg-quick, so idk why anything would be required to make it easier. Also, Rosenpass is quite great and easy to use, which really improves the security further. Hopefully Rosenpass will become part of the base implementation at some point.
People keep saying this, but it hasn't been true for me. I've had to reinstall PiVPN a few times, I assume because automatic updates may have broken it somehow. I tried manually configuring wireguard every time but just could not get it to work after hours of trying. PiVPN has always been extremely easy to install and configure.
Have you tried investigating the config it produces and comparing that to what you ended up with on your failed attempts? Way back when I first started using OpenVPN installing a quick-setup in a VM was how I found a glaring mistake I'd been making (with routing, it turned out, not the OpenVPN config itself).
Not that it massively matters if you are happy with PiVPN of course, but understanding more may help you diagnose issues should PiVPN ever fail.
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#57WireGuard/Tailscale are fine if you don't need to deal with state-wide censorship. They might be blocked quite easily.
Outline/Shadowsocks has better chances to keep working (though it is not a true vpn, more like a private proxy) https://getoutline.org/
Re: Build your own private WireGuard VPN with PiVPN
#58Or you can use ZeroTier.
ZeroTier kept having random disconnects, long wait times until connection is established/settled, and desktop app weirdness/inconsistencies. Have these problems been fixed? (Last used it years ago).
Re: Build your own private WireGuard VPN with PiVPN
#59Before going to a long 3 month trip to Asia last year, I installed WireGuard on my Raspberry Pi 1 (original model B from 2012) which was running at home in US. I found PiVPN to be the easiest way to install Wireguard. I didn't know if I even needed a VPN but I was glad, and I was able to use internet as if I were at home. It was weird, but a lot of sites are blocked oversea, even though it shouldn't. For example, I c…
Did you do anything to handle the event where, say, you lose connectivity and the system needs a reboot? Just curious about what would be the best way to handle that scenario.
While I didn't do this last time, in the future, I would plug the Raspberry pi to one of my smart power outlet (ie Kasa wifi power outlet) connected via HomeAssistant, so I can remotely restart it if Raspberry Pi becomes unresponsive. I also have another Raspberry Pi (again, the original 2012), so I could add redundancy by running second WireVPN on it, too.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can’t access homedepot from Germany either. I guess it’s HD blocking pesky foreigners
If you don't do business in the EU why accept traffic from there and possibly have to deal with GDPR issues.
Is GDPR that big of a difference now that California has its own strict data privacy laws?