Comment on How can I keep my forwarded port secure?
lud@lemm.ee 1 week agoYou don’t have to host the VPN on the router. You can also host it on a separate machine or the same one that’s running the Minecraft server.
Comment on How can I keep my forwarded port secure?
lud@lemm.ee 1 week agoYou don’t have to host the VPN on the router. You can also host it on a separate machine or the same one that’s running the Minecraft server.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Oh for sure. What I meant was “check router for a built in VPN and use it if it has one, otherwise use wireguard because it’s the easiest”.
The specific VPN doesn’t really matter so much. The built-in one would be the easiest, so checking for a solution that took a few clicks is worth it. :)
lud@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Fair enough.
But personally I would recommend trying to setup wireguard if your router doesn’t have it integrated. It’s just so much faster than OpenVPN (usually the only built in option).
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Yeah, it’s definitely faster, but I’m not sure it’s going to make too much of a difference for a Minecraft server.
With setting it up being a bit annoying by hand, I’d still rank the router option higher even if it’s a worse VPN. Otherwise you risk ending up in that yak shaving situation where you’re fighting with routing tables and DNS when you wanted a Minecraft server.
lud@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Yeah, that’s also fair. I have a tendency to overcomplicate things like this when all I wanted was a simple service.