Hi All,
I tried searching to see if it’s been asked, but haven’t been able to see my exact problem.
I’m wanting to create a VPN between my home network and a remote machine to mainly access one of my VMs on my Proxmox server to run code/simulations for my thesis research. I would mostly be using SSH and SFTP.
Is there a decent solution to do this securely? Hoping to not pay for too much unless I absolutely have to.
Thanks!
What about OpenVPN? Secure and free.
You’ll want to setup an OpenVPN server on your home network as well as a dynamic DNC service. Then the remote machine will be able to connect securely and remotely to your home.
There are lots of guides available on how to do this- most of which will explain better than I am able.
What type of firewall do you have? Some people will run an OpenVPN server on their firewall, others might run it as a VM or Container on a server such as a Proxmox server.
I use wireguard and works great for my needs. It’s fairly mundane to setup with wg-quick
I don’t think you would need a VPN for these. SSH is already an encrypted tunnel, and SFTP is FTP through a SSH tunnel.
The only weakness of using SSH without a VPN is if you are logging in via a password, which could be brute forced. This is not a problem if you set it up to only allow login with a SSH key, and don’t allow password login.
For other things, a VPN might be good.
ZeroTier is free and does not require port forwarding as it routes VPN traffic in their cloud.
Wireguard would work well for this.
Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I just spent the last few hours dusting off my pfSense VM after I had took it down for ISP troubleshooting and got OpenVPN installed and configured.
Edit: For the future ones who read this post, I selected charles7’s answer as the solution since that was the one I used and wanted it marked as solved. The other suggestions are good as well!