VPN Questions

[Bruce Wilfong]

Hello all,
I am wanting to set up VPN access which will allow me access to shared drives as well as access to sab, sickrate, couchpotato and nextcloud. However, my question is, do I need to setup VPN on my home router, in a freenas jail or both?

Any info would help, thanks.

 

[m0nkey_]

The VPN server can be pretty much anywhere on your network, providing the appropriate ports have been forwarded to it and your VPN server has IP forwarding enabled. If you want FreeNAS to be your OpenVPN server, there are a few how-to's available on the forum. If your router can act as a VPN server, then this is probably going to be the easiest option. Word of warning, do not use PPTP as the encryption algorithms have long been cracked. Use L2TP/IPSec or OpenVPN.

 

[chris crude]

And unless you have an Enterprise grade router, you will find performance better using FreeNAS, than a home router flashed to Tomato or DD-WRT. Processing power used for VPN encryption really slows down home routers.

 

[Bruce Wilfong]

So it would be better to go through Freenas as my VPN as opposed to my router?

Is there a good "How-to" for Freenas, I see a bunch of them and not sure what is the best/latest.

Thanks

 

[nightshade00013]

If you have a linksys or netgear router or something like them then yes it is better to use the FreeNAS as the encryption can really slow those routers down. If you are using a PfSense, OpnSense, or Smoothwall router that has decent hardware specs then it would work just fine.

One of the better step by step setups to do this on FreeNAS using OpenVPN would be https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...-6-with-access-to-remote-hosts-via-nat.22873/