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On iOS the only way I found for “always on” to work well was with the IKE protocol using the built-in VPN client. I set up a cheap Vultr VM and used this: http
by Scramblejams 7y ago
On iOS the only way I found for “always on” to work well was with the IKE protocol using the built-in VPN client. I set up a cheap Vultr VM and used this:
https://github.com/jawj/IKEv2-setup https://github.com/jawj/IKEv2-setup
One caveat: Reconnects worked poorly until I disabled the iptables rate limiting the script imposes.
Outside of that, it’s worked really well. I pointed the VM’s DNS at Adguard so I get some good filtering as part of it.
- heyoni 7y agoI'm trying wireguard at the moment for the always on feature. Setup was absurdly easy.
- Scramblejams 7y agoCool. When I set my VPN up, Wireguard didn’t do iOS yet, but I’m interested in it. Please post back to this thread with a short experience report, if you wouldn’t mind. :-)
- heyoni 7y agoSo far it's been really good. It's very good at staying on all the time and it was really easy to setup. Right now it's running on a raspberry pi but since I took down my ipsec vpn container, my ram/temp/cpu usage has gone down quite a bit. I still need to spend a minute configuring things like dynamic dns in case my IP changes but I'm really impressed right now.
- Scramblejams 7y agoThanks! Just ordered an Rpi4 for home routing duties, I’ll give it a try there first.
- heyoni 7y agoBtw, I also highly recommend a case cooling case for the rpi4. I got the aluminum one at https://flirc.tv https://flirc.tv but I think anything like it will do. It dropped the idle temperature by quite a bit. I think it went from ~75ish to about 45
- Scramblejams 7y agoGood call. Those are pretty cases. I saw some tests indicating open+fan really dropped temps vs closed+fan so I ordered one of these: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LXSMY1N https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LXSMY1N
- heyoni 7y agoI'd be curious to see what the idle temperatures land on.