pivpn vs synology-wireguard

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pivpn		synology-wireguard
	Project
311	Mentions	49
6,871	Stars	900
3.0%	Growth	-
5.8	Activity	0.0
15 days ago	Latest Commit	27 days ago
Shell	Language	Shell
MIT License	License	MIT License

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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

pivpn

Posts with mentions or reviews of pivpn. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-06.

PiVPN v4.6.0: The End
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Apr 2024
Network setup for remote access
3 projects | /r/RASPBERRY_PI_PROJECTS | 10 Dec 2023

PiVPN for classic VPN software https://pivpn.io - Wireguard would be my choice
Can't get it to run after installation, although running vpn from this pi before
2 projects | /r/pivpn | 6 Dec 2023

Linux retropie 5.10.103-v7l+ #1529 SMP Tue Mar 8 12:24:00 GMT 2022 armv7l GNU/Linux
Easy VPN install on Debian
2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 8 Jul 2023

Wondering what people are using these days to get a VPN (Wireguard?) up and running easily. Is Wireguard itself simple enough that one can just ... do this? I'm thinking of something like PiVPN which does appear to still exist but I'm unsure of how up-to-date it is. Specifically, I like terminal commands just fine, but would prefer not to have to manually configure a basic VPN (internet gateway) and its associated profiles/certificates.
LAN-to-LAN VPN
1 project | /r/de_EDV | 3 Jul 2023
setting up remote access for homelab
1 project | /r/homelab | 9 Jun 2023

A real simple way is pivpn in a vm. Super easy to set up and manage users. https://github.com/pivpn/pivpn
Festplatten / NAS die sich via Cloud synchronisieren?
1 project | /r/de_EDV | 18 May 2023
Wireguard without VPS?
7 projects | /r/selfhosted | 14 May 2023
Remote Access
3 projects | /r/homelab | 10 May 2023

They're easily set up via the guided PiVPN installation script. Should work on everything that's Debian-based, not just on Rasbian running on a Pi.
Build your own private WireGuard VPN with PiVPN
12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 May 2023

under Features in [1]:
* Doesn't need to be a Raspberry Pi™, It runs on any x86_64 system
[1] https://pivpn.io/

synology-wireguard

Posts with mentions or reviews of synology-wireguard. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-25.

VPN + Mapped Drive in Windows?
1 project | /r/synology | 1 Jun 2023

Try here: https://github.com/runfalk/synology-wireguard
[Synology] Quelqu'un a-t-il réussi à exécuter Wireguard avec une interface utilisateur dans Docker sur sa boîte de synologie?
1 project | /r/enfrancais | 14 May 2023
DSM 7.2-64551 RC is now available
2 projects | /r/synology | 25 Apr 2023
qBittorrent on Windows won't upload when data is coming through Synology via SMB/NFS/CIFS
1 project | /r/synology | 8 Apr 2023

It seems like your model is based out of the v1000 platform. See if this can help: https://github.com/runfalk/synology-wireguard/issues/61
Kernel version of DfSM that comes with the latest DiskStation models
1 project | /r/synology | 12 Feb 2023
Using Synology NAS as VPN server to send the traffic to the internet
1 project | /r/WireGuard | 7 Feb 2023

Anyone knows how to do this. I installed runfalk/synology-wireguard with complied .spk file, I managed setup macOS client and hand shake is successful. I added /etc/sysctl.conf with net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 as stated in this. But no success, the Synology is reachable via wireguard tunnel but not internet,
Wireguard
1 project | /r/SynologyForum | 19 Jan 2023

But you could try this, if your NAS is supported: https://github.com/runfalk/synology-wireguard

1 project | /r/synology | 18 Jan 2023

not native but this has worked well for me for creating a server endpoint
VPN solution with static ip assigments ?
1 project | /r/Xpenology | 18 Jan 2023
Can't get wireguard to start on Synology NAS
2 projects | /r/WireGuard | 30 Oct 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pivpn and synology-wireguard you can also consider the following projects:

tailscale - The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.

synology-docker - An Unofficial Script to Update or Restore Docker Engine and Docker Compose on Synology

docker-wireguard

docker-transmission-openvpn - Docker container running Transmission torrent client with WebUI over an OpenVPN tunnel

wg-easy - The easiest way to run WireGuard VPN + Web-based Admin UI. [Moved to: https://github.com/wg-easy/wg-easy]

synology-tailscale - Synology packages for tailscale.com

wg-easy - The easiest way to run WireGuard VPN + Web-based Admin UI.

nordvpn - NordVpn Docker Client

wireguard-windows - Download WireGuard for Windows at https://www.wireguard.com/install . This repo is a mirror only. Official repository is at https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-windows

gluetun - VPN client in a thin Docker container for multiple VPN providers, written in Go, and using OpenVPN or Wireguard, DNS over TLS, with a few proxy servers built-in.

OpenVPN - OpenVPN is an open source VPN daemon

docker - Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems [Moved to: https://github.com/moby/moby]