So basically, I will be away from home for several weeks. Unfortunately, this became the perfect time for our home router to start acting out and factory resetting itself. We are awaiting a new router for replacement, but the time is tight.

My stuff is ethernetted in, so that connectivity isn’t an issue - the issue is that I couldn’t actually connect to the router to restore services even if it had internet by fixing all the settings including port forwarding.

What I would like would be the ability to have a VPN perhaps connected to my homelab, so I can hop on the router and restore the settings if this issue happens while I’m away. Any ideas?

Edit: I settled on Netbird. Thank you for your help!

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    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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    CGNAT Carrier-Grade NAT
    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    IP Internet Protocol
    NAT Network Address Translation
    PSU Power Supply Unit
    SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access
    UDP User Datagram Protocol, for real-time communications
    Unifi Ubiquiti WiFi hardware brand
    VNC Virtual Network Computing for remote desktop access
    VPN Virtual Private Network
    VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
    k8s Kubernetes container management package

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