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Honestly I’m not familiar with OpenWRT, but I would guess you can set up a VPN using OpenWRT without a Pi (assuming your router has the CPU muscle to run that). I know you can do it with PFsense and OPNsense.And I think the whole point of setting up a VPN is to AVOID port forwarding. It’s safer to have no ports forwarded.

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SheeEttin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

I think the whole point of setting up a VPN is to AVOID port forwarding. It’s safer to have no ports forwarded.

Yes, but if the only thing you’re forwarding is the VPN, it’s fine. There isn’t really any big issue with forwarding anyway, the issue is with exposing potentially vulnerable services. And if you take down a service but forget to disable port forwarding, and something you don’t want public ends up being accessible from the Internet.

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glasgitarrewelt@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
You are right, it is possible to set up a wireguard VPN on OpenWRT and I am planning to do that. At this point getting the Pi running is more like an exercise to get to know OpenWRT better.

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