edgewalker VS wireguard-install

Can’t say I approve of his endorsement of OpenVPN when Streisand and Algo exist, but I may be biased, having written my own self-hosted VPN script, Edgewalker (https://github.com/fazalmajid/edgewalker).

I’m not sure of the point of the book, generally people learn from doing, when they have a pressing need that provides the motivation, rather than learn new skills in advance “on spec”, so what’s really needed is a reference or wiki, or something like StackOverflow with better curation.

I use a modified version of my Edgewalker script to do this between my OpenBSD router at home an an OpenBSD VPS in the cloud that holds the fixed IP. Works like a charm, but many services blacklist cloud IPs, e.g. streaming or Wikipedia won’t let you make edits, so my client devices still go direct through CGNAT to avoid this.

My home network is behind CGNAT so I use WG to a cloud VPS using a variant of my Edgewalker DIY VPN script to get a static IP.

You are better off renting a cloud server and rolling your own, e.g. using Streisand, Algo or my own Edgewalker

VPN providers are untrustworthy. You’re better off getting a VPS from a cloud provider and running your own, e.g. my Edgewalker.

If you just want to run a WireGuard server, have a look at Edgewalker. Warp does more, like routing through CloudFlare’s network so the source IP as seen by the server varies by server location. It was a good way to defeat Netflix geoblocking at one time, sadly no longer.

You can use WireGuard over the CGNAT connection to a cloud server (e.g. using my Edgewalker) to get essentially a poor man's static IP. I did it on my UK Three 5G connection and still do on my non-static IP fiber broadband connection.

I wrote Edgewalker, a script to quickly setup an IPsec/IKEv2/MOBIKE and Wireguard server on top of any OpenBSD instance, along with QR code based setup for iDevices and Wireguard. It doesn't have integration with enterprise directory services and SSO, and there seems to be an entire ecosystem of commercial Wireguard wrappers that offer that and little else.

Don't trust VPN services. Just build your own, e.g. using my Edgewalker script or something like Argo or Streisand.

You could use my Edgewalker as a starting point. Is the web panel for yourself or for your friends?

Btw you can try this script..

If you want an easy setup I suggest using a script like this. Even a novice should be able to set up Wireguard in about half an hour - assuming they already have a DynDNS service set up.

Really depends on what you want to do. I run an Ubuntu server VM with Wireguard (my preferred script) , an openmediavault VM to take care or my NAS, HDDs (SATA controller is passed through) with mergerFS+Snapraid) and it also serves as my docker host, pihole VM for DNS (also allows you create your own, local DNS entries so you do not have to use the device's IP)

Yes, and no. Server security is a rather complex topic and covering it in a few sentences is impossible. Try to expose as few of your services as possible to the open web and also ensure they are well maintained - on your side (AKA update your stuff regular) and on the dev side. Seeing that the last github update was over ~6 months ago likely means there are unmitigated security risks. You can expect large projects like Plex, Nextcloud, Bitwarden(Vaultwarden), and others to be built well enough that they do not pose a significant risk. Anything else should only be accessible over a VPN. I am not talking about the commercial ones like PIA or NordVPN. These are mainly useful to circumvent geo restrictions, get better peering, and some other stuff. In terms of security, it does almost nothing despite what the ads claim. What I am talking about is running your own VPN server. Easily doable when you run a home server anyway by running a Wireguard script. By connecting to it remotely you will be able to access your home network as if you were at home although a bit bandwidth limited due to slow internet connections.

but if you don't then this is probably fine as well but I never used it https://github.com/angristan/wireguard-install

I personally use this script to setup a wireguard server. Doing it by hand is totally possible but this makes things a bit easier.

I do the same with Amazon and haven't had any issues. I run wireguard on an Amazon instance with the following script: https://github.com/angristan/wireguard-install