Comment on Help with Netbird Networks
Dojan@pawb.social 6 hours ago
I have Netbird hosted on my VPS, and have my home server act as a routing exit node, as well as the way I access stuff on my home network.
In essence, my setup looks like this
- Network Routing > Networks, I’ve set up a network called
Home Network LANwhich exposes a Subnet for my home network, lit. the IPs I use locally. (192.168…) - Access Control > Groups I have a group called
Home Network Users, within which I’ve put the devices that should be able to access the home network (my phone, my laptop, not the servers). - Access Control > Policies sets up a policy called
Home Network Access, which has Home Users as a source, and the Home Network LAN as a destination.
I think that’s about it, really. If I am outside of my home network, I connect my Netbird VPN and I can access any and all things on my home network using the direct internal network IPs from anywhere. I have also set up the home server as a routing exit node, and added an Adguard instance as a DNS server so I can use my private network domains as well.
So basically I can connect to my Jellyfin instance either via direct home-IP (192.168.x.5 or whatever) or via jellyfin.home.arpa
I am not sure your travel router needs to be a routing peer.
I am also rubbish at network things, so if you have follow-up questions I’ll probably struggle to understand them.
tapdattl@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
The reason I’m using the travel router is because the TV at my girlfriend’s place does not have the ability to connect to Netbird directly, so I can’t reach back to my home server’s Jellyfin instance through the TV. There is a Jellyfin app available on the TV, but without Netbird it can’t reach back home.
What I’m trying to do is have the travel router (which is a Netbird peer) proxy any requests it recieved for netbird resources to clients connected to it, sort of like a reverse exit node.
I think in that case you should just put your travel router as a user of the group that accesses the home network.
If I set my phone to be a WiFi hotspot with my Netbird VPN on, my tablet can connect to my phone’s hotspot and access my home network even if my tablet doesn’t have the VPN on it.
So in that case I guess the router would be a peer, yeah!
Did you manage to get it working in the end?
tapdattl@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Fascinating, I’m going to have to test connecting the TV to my phone.
I haven’t gotten home yet so no testing yet, but I’ve got several plans to try out now. I’ll report back what I find!
Looking forward to it, I’m invested now haha!