[mythtv-users] Open VPN server on backend

[Ian Evans]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 6:04 PM, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:

> On 11/19/2015 07:52 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>
> You don't need to run the vpn server on your Mythbox. It just needs to
>> be inside your lan. Mine is running on my router/firewall. Through it
>> I can acces anything as if I'm there. As long as I do not block it on
>> the firewall.
>>
>
> You can probably run an openvpn server on your router. There are over 500
> distinct routers which can be upgraded with openwrt, and probably half of
> those will run an openvpn server. Once *inside* your lan, everything should
> be available with ssh. And on newer more powerful router hardware (anything
> 811n or 811ac basically, from what I see), you can have the router control
> aaccess to folder shares.
>
> And the heavy duty pricing is soooo difficult to bear: free.
>
> (On the gripping hand, you *will* have to learn some stuff. This is not a
> turn-key install-and-forget).
>

I'd tried running it on my Tomato router a few years ago but it had issues.
Though it may have just been a bad tutorial. I'll give it a whirl again.
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