My Own VPN through a VM?

Operating Systems & Open Source Linux
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Using a VM, OpenVPN and some other software, can I setup a form of VPN at home? Or does anyone have anything that could help?

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Yes, you can run openvpn on a VM.

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With a VM + openVPN you can set up a OpenVPN access server. Port forward to the VM and you can connect to your network from the internet safely

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I like PFsense or OPENsense for that. If your outer supports it you can create an route back and forth or replace your router.

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So this would have the same benefits of a VPN? This sounds too simple to be safe, how could I be so sure?

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I have Time Warner cable, and I fairly sure that I would have to jump through a flaming hoop to get a setup that would work.

I'm trying to do this a very cheap, so with existing hardware and also use it as a learning tool.

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A VPN is NOT synonymous with tunnelbear and similiar providers of a VPN.
VPN = Virtual Private Network I only said, you can set up a VM which acts as an VPN access server, which you than could connect to from the internet, and savely access your own network. (I do that using a Raspberrp PI 2 as server) and it works great.

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so my ISP can't throttle, see my traffic by using this method? Sorry to seem so naive but Networking is not my thing. I am trying to learn though and found this to be interesting.

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nah i believe they can still see everything and throtel because your sett up would go as follows

isp < modem < router < vpn < you

thus your isp is still in front of everything that hapens

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ok, if you want to be "save" from your ISP you will either need a external server (datacenter) to connect to under your control, or a VPN provider (tunnelbear, and how they are all called)

So your connection than is PC - VPN ==== tunnel through ISP network ==== to VPN provider - classic internet

That way your provider only sees the VPN tunnel, which is encrypted.

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So if I used Digital Ocean and created an OpenVPN server in the cloud would that work?

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Your ISP will always be able to see the throughput and throttle your bandwidth if they want.

A VPN can obfuscate your traffic but the traffic is still going through the same pipe, if that makes sense.

You know how your LAN is a private network? A VPN allows you to connect to another network as if it were part of your LAN, and then use that network to get to the internet. Since your outbound traffic originates from there, you are hiding your location effectively.

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I would say yes and no. The architecture would be similar, but the digital ocean instance may still be traced back to you depending on how they allocate IPs and what kind of logging they do.

Services like private internet access will pool a group of people onto one public IP and also (according to their claims) ensure that no logs are kept.

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