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Advice: accessing home network beyond home (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hi folks, I'm just getting into this hobby thanks to the posts in this community. So far, I've installed Ubuntu server 22.04 on an old laptop and got paperless working, and I'm pretty pumped. Now I would like to access it outside of my home network on my phone.

I have a Netgear R7000 with Advanced Tomato installed. Here's my plan, but I don't know if it would work... So I'm hoping for a peer review of sorts.

  • Get openVPN working on the router as a server.
  • make a certificate for my phone and use it as a client.
  • use my fedora laptop as the CA (?).

I think I need to use easy-RDA to make the keys and certificates...

Does that sound about right? It's this a good approach or is there something better/easier/more effective?

If there's a great tutorial around for accessing the home network externally, I'd super appreciate it. Would obviously prefer to do it myself and not pay for a service... I've been enjoying the learning experience!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Really, wow ok. Someone recommended that in another post, and I thought there must still be some value to doing it myself.

So does all the traffic go through tailscale? I gotta watch a YouTube video...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The traffic goes through a wireguard connection. Tailscale is just a facilitator to initiate the connections. There's more to it than that, but that's the basic gist of it.

The core technology is wireguard, and you could set everything up yourself, but plain wireguard can be a chore and pain to get all setup. Tailscale is honestly 5 minutes to get a basic connection going.