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!
In addition to Netbird, I also suggest Pangolin, https://pangolin.net/ it’s quite efficient at what it does but either way would work fine if you want to self host it.
I’m keep thinking at some point tailscale is going to incorporate a feature similar to pangolin. I mean pangolin is just a proxy server tied to wireguard ( or newt). You can also do very similar things with cloudflare.
Tailscale already does though, I think.
https://tailscale.com/docs/features/tailscale-funnel
Although it might work differently.
Sorta. This opens up a Tailscale node to the world with their weird names. I want my own custom domain pointing to Tailscale endpoints like pangolin does. So the funnel is very close you’re right, but needs a tiny bit more.
True, but the point is you don’t need cloudflare or tailscale (i know headscale exists), so end to end you can likely trust it.
I much prefer things self-hosted. I was just saying I wouldn’t be surprised if tailscale offers something similar to pangolin.
Ahh, thank you for clarifying. Sorry :/