Site to Site VPN For Family Home

VPN
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Hey Everyone,

Wanting to put a small NUC at my in laws so I can put pihole and stuff like that on their home network as they are older and often need help. I’d like to be able to manage this remotely and want to do it securely normally I’d just put PFSense as the router in a VM and call it a day but I’ve already hooked them up with a Amplifi mesh system.

I’d like to setup a simple, secure ipsec site to site VPN without spinning up an entire router or anything crazy I know of two possible options being Strongswan and OpenVPN but the latter costing money unless there is a free opensource version.

Thanks for reading.

Edit: forgot to mention I have a UDM PRO to terminate the vpn tunnel at my house.

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Why can’t you set up pfSense if you’re also running AmpliFi? You have a lot of options in the open source space for a router or VPN. My preference would be something employing IPsec or WireGuard.

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Why not run Wireguard on the NUC itself? If you set it up to start automatically it’ll come up extremely quickly after boot. No need for port forwarding at your in-laws’ place, just at wherever you’re hosting the VPN server.