Linux Fu: Heads or Tails for VPN
Linux Fu: Heads Or Tails For VPN No comments by: Al Williams August 10, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy If you’ve done much networking, you surely know the frustration of trying to connect to something, say a Raspberry Pi, that lives behind your consumer router. There are a number of solutions for this, ranging from opening ports on your router along with dynamic DNS. Or, you can operate a VPN server on your network.
- ▪Linux Fu: Heads Or Tails For VPN No comments by: Al Williams August 10, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy If you’ve done much networking, you surely know the frustration of trying to connect to something, say a Raspberry Pi, that lives behi
- ▪There are a number of solutions for this, ranging from opening ports on your router along with dynamic DNS.
- ▪Or, you can operate a VPN server on your network.
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Linux Fu: Heads Or Tails For VPN No comments by: Al Williams August 10, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy If you’ve done much networking, you surely know the frustration of trying to connect to something, say a Raspberry Pi, that lives behind your consumer router. There are a number of solutions for this, ranging from opening ports on your router along with dynamic DNS. Or, you can operate a VPN server on your network. Modern Linux has a facility called Wireguard that lets you create secure network tunnels very easily, but it is a little difficult to set up. But there are tools like Tailscale that can do most of the work for you. There’s only one problem: Tailscale is sorta-kinda free, but not really.
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