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Ironically this looks considerably simpler than trying to get wireguard working on my OpenWRT router (and with much less collateral damage should I mess up). I
by josteink 7y ago
Ironically this looks considerably simpler than trying to get wireguard working on my OpenWRT router (and with much less collateral damage should I mess up).
I might give this a try!
- Namidairo 7y agoWireGuard on OpenWRT isn't too different or difficult. The luci-app-wireguard package is a bit quirky at times though. You'll run into cpu bottlenecks with some of the lower end hardware though.
- h4waii 7y agoI've been running a WireGuard VPN on my OpenWrt router for quite a while with no issues whatsoever. Rock solid since I set it up, only has a 4 or 5 peers, but it's been excellent and I highly suggest it versus adding yet another single purpose device. Not sure why the RPi is so lauded for this and Pi-Hole (which is just a fancy DNS blocklist) when OpenWrt is just as simple and powerful for both (and more) tasks.
- josteink 7y agoMy main issue with doing this with OpenWRT is that it is loaded with abstractions. Network, interfaces, firewall zones, bridged zones, etc. When they all work, it's nice and almost magical. But when setting up new custom zones from scratch (like this VPN subnet/zone), I never feel quite as home as I do with the traditional Linux command-line and iptables. Basically OpenWRTs abstractions don't map cleanly to the underlying Linux-primitives I know fairly well. The impedance mismatch there is what make me consider the RPi-based solution more preferable, because I understand how and why it works.