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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?

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[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 1 point 14 hours ago (1 child)

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.

[–] kokomo@lemmy.kokomo.cloud 2 points 13 hours ago (1 child)

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.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (1 child)

I much prefer things self-hosted. I was just saying I wouldn’t be surprised if tailscale offers something similar to pangolin.

[–] kokomo@lemmy.kokomo.cloud 1 point 8 hours ago

Ahh, thank you for clarifying. Sorry :/