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4,270 | 1,833 | |
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9.2 | 4.5 | |
7 days ago | 26 days ago | |
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Pritunl
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OpenVPN access server alternative
Also check Pritunl
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VPN solution backed by Google Identity?
It doesn't run on OpnSense but Pritunl's paid version supports Google SSO. Works well. Easy client deploy.
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Lansweeper updating their subscription plans as of August 1, 2022...
Went to pritunl. Self-hosted.
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So I've installed grafana, loki, and prometheus on the personal Kubernetes cluster via Terraform. Now what?
Thanks! I currently run Pritunl on the cluster, but I could definitely host my resume on there as well. I could stand to learn tools like https://locust.io or Bees With Machines Guns as a load testing exercise for sure. I will dive into it!
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Wireguard Server GUI?
Pritunl
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Self hosted TCP VPN easily?
Wireguard is UDP natively, do use the TCP option in OpenVPN. It installed easily. Here’s one tool that makes installation and management easy https://pritunl.com/
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Does a self-hosted, user-friendly VPN with an actual front-end exist?
Pritunl might be a solution for your case. I've used it in the past and it checks a lot of boxes (decent UI, users/organisation management, 2FA). However keep in mind that it uses Openvpn protocol and is much slower than WG to connect.
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Looking for a simple VPN solution
OpenVPN is my go to but it can get pricey for lots of users. For full free open source I like pritunl
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Is anyone using WireGuard in the workplace?
We’ve plan to test https://pritunl.com they seems to support 2FA but not yet on MacOS I think.
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Setting up a VPN
Links to products mentioned above: https://www.turnkeylinux.org/vpn https://pritunl.com/
tinc
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Would we still create Nebula today?
But both Nebula and tinc max out at around 1 Gbit/s on my Hetzner servers, thus not using most of my 10 Gbit/s connectivity. This is because they cap out at 100% of 1 CPU. The Nebula issue about that was closed due to "inactivity" [2].
I also observed that when Nebula operates at 100% CPU usage, you get lots of package loss. This causes software that expects reasonable timings on ~0.2ms links to fail (e.g. consensus software like Consul, or Ceph). This in turn led to flakiness / intermittent outages.
I had to resolve to move the big data pushing softwares like Ceph outside of the VPN to get 10 Gbit/s speed for those, and to avoid downtimes due to the packet loss.
Such software like Ceph has its own encryption, but I don't trust it, and that mistrust was recently proven right again [3].
So I'm currently looking to move the Ceph into WireGuard.
Summary: For small-data use, tinc and Nebula are fine, but if you start to push real data, they break.
[1]: https://github.com/gsliepen/tinc/issues/218
[2]: https://github.com/slackhq/nebula/issues/637
[3]: https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisor...
No love for tinc[1]?
It's the granddaddy of mesh networking, long before Wireguard, and while it's not quite zeroconf, it's very simple to setup and maintain. It also runs on everything.
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Tailscale/golink: A private shortlink service for tailnets
From a purely networking perspective, there are far better solutions than tailscale.
Have a look at full mesh VPNs like:
https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns
https://github.com/yggdrasil-network/yggdrasil-go
https://github.com/gsliepen/tinc
https://github.com/costela/wesher
These build actual mesh networks where every node is equal and can serve as a router for other nodes to resolve difficult network topologies (where some nodes might not be connected to the internet, but do have connections to other nodes with an internet connection).
Sending data through multiple routers is also possible. They also deal with nodes disappearing and change routes accordingly.
tailscale (and similar solutions like netbird) still use a bunch of "proxy servers" for that. You can set them up on intermediate nodes, but that have to be dealt with manually (and you get two kinds of nodes).
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Tunneling to Synology NAS without opening ports.
Two other options are Tinc https://tinc-vpn.org/ or Nebula https://www.defined.net/nebula/
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Port Forward Security & Alternatives
And there is Tinc; the OG overlay network. I don't have experience with this. Seemed a bit of a pain to setup. https://tinc-vpn.org
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WireGuard multihop available in the Mullvad app
For what its worth I have used the open source Tinc VPN [1] for mesh multihop routing for ages. It is nowhere near as fast as Wireguard but I could envision Tinc incorporating support for Wireguard if the author were so inclined. Like you mentioned Tinc does not mesh with other VPN's AFAIK.
[1] - https://tinc-vpn.org/
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Tinc Is Not Catan
I clicked expected some broken analogy between https://tinc-vpn.org/ and the Catan board game, but instead it is a Catan implementation. Fair enough.
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Graphviz: Open-source graph visualization software
will generate a real-time network graph using the Graphviz DOT language. It's a cool feature that I find quite useful.
What are some alternatives?
OpenVPN - OpenVPN is an open source VPN daemon
SoftEther - Cross-platform multi-protocol VPN software. Pull requests are welcome. The stable version is available at https://github.com/SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN_Stable.
Nebula - A scalable overlay networking tool with a focus on performance, simplicity and security
ZeroTier - A Smart Ethernet Switch for Earth
tailscale - The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.
Pritunl-Fake-API - This neat script provides a little fake API to unlock all premium/enterprise/enterprise+ (here called ultimate) features of your own Pritunl VPN server. A mirror of https://gitlab.simonmicro.de/simonmicro/pritunl-fake-api
ssh-audit - SSH server & client security auditing (banner, key exchange, encryption, mac, compression, compatibility, security, etc)
firezone - Open-source VPN server and egress firewall for Linux built on WireGuard. Firezone is easy to set up (all dependencies are bundled thanks to Chef Omnibus), secure, performant, and self hostable.
headscale - An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server