As shown in my last post using wireguard over TCP (with a little help of proxyguard) isn’t that hard (once you understood how things work). However most VPN solutions come with certain limitations: They often use their specific ports and protocols and therefore can be filtered by firewalls (either by choice or even sometime by […]
Category: VPN
Some time ago I tried to get eduvpn working with wireguard over TCP. As you might remember I wasn’t able to make it work reliably so I skipped that attempt for the time being. Now some time has passed and I decided to start over with a more basic approach to get a feeling about […]
Wireguard is a very nice and fast VPN solution, however it comes with some drawbacks: Most of all it only supports UDP traffic. On an open network this is not a problem, however some networks may deny UDP traffic or may even allow only very specific traffic (like (TCP based) http(s)). So to increase the […]
I’m planing to install eduvpn as a personal VPN solution. I also want to separate the VPN functionality (“vpn-daemon”, hostname “eduvpn-node”) from the management web frontend (controller or “vpn-user-portal”, hostname “eduvpn”). Adding software repository So we start by configuring the required software repos (on both machines, here’s the new APT822 version): Basic installation After that […]
I recently got a few NordVPN licenses, so I gave it a try. The GUI client on Linux seems extremely limited, so settings things up requires some good old shell commands. Basic installation/setup Documentation can be found here: At that point you’ll need to reboot in order to apply the new group membership (at least […]