Questions tagged [vpn]

A VPN is a virtual private network. It extends a private network across a public network (e.g. the internet) by dedicated connections, virtual tunneling, or traffic encryption. VPNs can be used to securely access remote services.

Popular VPN tools for the Pi running under Linux are Hamachi and openVPN.

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PI as a VPN router for local machines

I would like to enable couple of my machines to access the internet through a VPN connection. My idea is that the PI can simply dial in an establish a connection and then route requests from the other machines through it. I am thinking that setting…
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How can I check for internet connection before running /etc/rc.local script

I want to use the Raspberry Pi as a VPN gateway. The RPi connects to my home network and the internet via wlan0, and any device plugged into eth0 gets a VPN connection. I am using pptp-linux to make the VPN connection and everything worked fine…
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Wireguard "Unknown device type" "Protocol not supported"

I recently installed Raspberry Pi OS on my Pi 3b. After some basic configuration and running raspi-config, I installed wireguard using apt and the debian backport repos, according to a tutorial. I wasn't able to start the service though: #…
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What is the simplest way to securely access my Raspi from internet?

Either from my laptop or my andoid tablet I thought first Port forwarding and the pair of keys for SSH would be good but no avail I lost myself.. Thinking that it's easier I tried also Openvpn but I did not succeed either. Moreover Openvpn seems…
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Does Raspberry Pi 4 processor support AES-NI instructions?

In the interest of minimizing timing attacks on my OpenVPN and similar connections, does Raspberry Pi 4 support AES-NI instructions? Some reference to AES is made in the technical reference manual, but I don't see a conclusive answer anywhere.
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How to bridge an access point with a remote network by Wireguard? (with the use of systemd-networkd)

Have been following a members' posts about using the Pi as a Wifi Repeater and/or Bridge and also bridging via openvpn. A member of this forum (Ingo) has provided awesome step-by-step instructions with the use of systemd-networkd with the setup and…
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Raspberry Pi 3 How to connect to work VPN

I am attempting to connect my Raspberry Pi 3 to my work VPN. I have a VPN address, user name, and password. I have tried searching how to connect to a VPN on the pi, and every search result I get is about connecting to some other VPN hosting…
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Using Raspberry Pi as a Tunnelbear sharing device

I have a Model B which is hooked up to my network via ethernet. It also has a wireless USB dongle plugged into it which is currently not in use. I have Tunnelbear's unlimited VPN (grizzly) and wondered whether I could turn my raspberry pi into my…
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Using 'Network Manager' for Wireless & VPN Management

I am new to RP & have been searching for 24 hours for this. I have a 'ThePiHut' USB wifi dongle. It seemed to install its own drivers when I plugged it in and I used the wpa_gui to successfully connect to a wireless network. I now need to use an…
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Clients connected through OpenVPN unable to process DNS requests through Pi-hole

I am on Rasbian Stretch. I installed OpenVPN (via PiVPN) and Pi-Hole (4.2). I setup my Pi-Hole (that runs on 192.168.1.6 on the LAN) to use Cloudflare DNS over TLS (using the cloudflared service on port 5054). Pi-Hole works great locally (other…
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Does Raspbian keep a security log file, and what is its location?

I set up an OpenVPN server on my Raspberry Pi running Raspbian and am wondering if there is a log file of security events that I can look at. I'm curious because I want to know if there are login attempts via the now forwarded port that I should be…
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VPN Passthrough two ethernet interface

I'm a quite new in the network my internet acces have a proxy so to by-pass it I use a VPN hosted on my VPS. I use the OpenVPN Client software for all my devices. (Windows, Android, Linux) I got a Raspberry Pi and i would like to use it like a VPN…
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RPi as WIFI Access Point and VPN router

I'm trying to set up my RPi as Wifi Access Point and to connect as client to a OpenVPN server. The connection to the VPN server works fine as long I use the Midori. I followed this steps: PI as a VPN router for local machines The RPi as Wifi…
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Unable to apt-get update but connected to internet?

So I got a pi 3.0 and it has been running a apache webserver with php just fine. I have not logged into it in a while. Today, however, I was planning to install openvpn which failed to install. So I figured let me just update it with apt-get update…
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VPN - Route some traffic not through VPN

I've been working with my Pi running Raspbian lately, and I almost have everything set up as I would like. However, I've been stuck for a bit on my next plan - incorporating a VPN connection. I have transmission-daemon running, the transmission…
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