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I'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 i
by h4waii 7y ago
I'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.