VPN server / client

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Hi guys, great videos, keep up the good work, I enjoy hearing about the US ISP's and their insane thoughtflows. Makes it seem as if we're a lot better off in the Netherlands although they're also discussing Netflix bandwith allocation craziness now.

Not what I want tot talk about, I wanted to ask the following:

I want to reach my NAS at home by using VPN, so a VPN server is needed. However, I also want to make use of a VPN service (using PIA now based on your recommendations) so that all traffic is also not visible to my ISP or any spying third party. That would require setting up my router as a VPN client device. What I'm worried about; would that not collide somewhere? I mean, I want to reach my VPN server at my dyndns domain based on the IP address given by the ISP. But then again with a client VPN for all traffic to a service like PIA would make my public IP address totally different?

I'm not sure if this makes any sense so most probably not but I'm confused about this whole thing and would want to know your view.

I want to connect to my home network and I want all traffic to be secure and private, not up to no good but I just don't like others mining my whereabouts on the internet.

 

 

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You might get some tips from these sites.

http://thealarmclocksixam.wordpress.com/2014/09/21/how-to-setup-a-vpn-server-in-a-freenas-jail/

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/forum/

You say you're "not up to no good", but how can we be sure this is not part of your evil plan to take over the world? lol

 

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I think you'd be fine. The way I understand it is that you route your internet connection through PIA using your router and you have a server on your network that you want to access from outside. This should still be possible because the IP address given to you by your ISP should still point to your router and I see no reason why your router would deny an incoming connection jut because it's set up as a VPN client.

TL;DR - Theoretically it should still work so long as you have the correct ports forwarded on your router

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Geoff, you're absolutely right, there is no way of telling if I'm up to no good and truth being told; taking over the world is high up on my priority list :D

Thanks for the links, gonna check them tomorrow

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That does make sense, let's see how that works out, first a decent router that will allow some bandwith over OpenVPN.

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RaspberryPi with some bash scripts to solve the dynamic ip problem. Three words: It Is Amazing .  

http://readwrite.com/2014/04/10/raspberry-pi-vpn-tutorial-server-secure-web-browsing

see my response to this other question in this forum   https://teksyndicate.com/forum/inboxexe/vpn-through-vps/188715

 

Let me know if you need help with setting it up. I have 1 rpi acting as a remote vpn access point with custom web interface capable to wake on lan my other 3 machines which are wired together on 8port gbit netgear switch at home  atm.  cool stuff