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tailscale

1,005 16,437 9.9 Go knock VS tailscale

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

311 6,871 5.8 Shell knock VS pivpn

The Simplest VPN installer, designed for Raspberry Pi
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The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
crowdsec

169 7,774 9.6 Go knock VS crowdsec

CrowdSec - the open-source and participative security solution offering crowdsourced protection against malicious IPs and access to the most advanced real-world CTI.
Nebula

140 13,717 8.6 Go knock VS Nebula

A scalable overlay networking tool with a focus on performance, simplicity and security
nginx-proxy

102 18,030 8.8 Python knock VS nginx-proxy

Automated nginx proxy for Docker containers using docker-gen
wireguard-install

60 3,591 3.4 Shell knock VS wireguard-install

WireGuard road warrior installer for Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, CentOS and Fedora (by Nyr)
reverse-proxy-confs

59 1,248 8.3 knock VS reverse-proxy-confs

These confs are pulled into our SWAG image: https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-swag
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blocklist-ipsets

39 2,938 2.8 Shell knock VS blocklist-ipsets

ipsets dynamically updated with firehol's update-ipsets.sh script
tinc

19 1,837 5.6 C knock VS tinc

a VPN daemon
fwknop

10 1,025 7.3 Perl knock VS fwknop

Single Packet Authorization > Port Knocking
WireGuardMeshes

10 426 6.2 knock VS WireGuardMeshes

A text repo to feature-track WireGuard mesh software
homecontroller

2 4 8.7 Shell knock VS homecontroller

Personal project to move all tools on my RaspberryPi to Docker.

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Port Forward Security & Alternatives
9 projects | /r/selfhosted | 21 Jun 2022

As other's have suggested, I use wireguard to get into these services. One other thing I would suggest though is to setup SSH with external access using port knocking along with SSH keys. That means if your VPN is failing for some reason you can at least diagnose it.
UFW setup for decent security
5 projects | /r/selfhosted | 16 Mar 2022

Sure, few links for when you dig in: http://iplists.firehol.org/, https://crowdsec.net/, https://www.zeroflux.org/projects/knock/, https://www.cipherdyne.org/fwknop/
Linux automated shutdown from windows batch file.
1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 27 Feb 2022

Maybe port knocking would work. https://www.zeroflux.org/projects/knock
SSH safety measure
1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 31 Oct 2021

I can recommend another protection method: port-knocking. For example with this excellent little helper: https://github.com/jvinet/knock
knock: a "port knocking" daemon that grants access to services based on sequentially opening a series of network ports.
1 project | /r/opensource | 22 May 2021
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