Can I share my own network to my friend as a vpn?

Hey guys,

I wanna to share my own network with my friend though the network, and make it like a vpn connection

So that my friend can use my network in their own computer.

Is that be possible?

Cheers!

Yes.

I use pivpn on a raspberry pi. Were I so inclined I could let someone connect into it as if they were on my home network.

Yes. This is actually what a VPN was originally intended for. Just replace your network with a work network and resources.

Another vote for the PiVPN. Plenty of guides online and fairly straightforward to set up. I use one to allow a friend in China to bypass the Great Firewall’s censorship.

What resources do you want your friend to have access to? What kind of router do you have?

You could likely do this very easily with Hamachi LogMeIn

I use a server with windows server 2016 and a vpn service on it

Then my friend could access my resources but only at 12 mb/s max beacuse we both got 100mbit fiber :slight_smile:

lots of ways to do it as you can tell from the other responses.

if you are running openWRT (or another platform that supports IPSec) on both routers, an always-on site-to-site VPN is really easy to set up using the strongswan package

How can I do this? I’ve always wondered. Do you have a video or an instructional guide?

I was also about to suggest this.

There are lots of ways to do this. You could use OpenVPN on a custom firmware build. DD-WRT works very well. You can also set up a system to run OpenVPN and just port-forward the VPN port to that system. Like @Connir, I use PiVPN (http://www.pivpn.io/). If you have a Pi, installation is dead simple. Enter the following from a command line: curl -L https://install.pivpn.io | bash . Note: Piping to bash can be a security risk. Just check the script out before you run it.

Pretty good YouTube @ https://youtu.be/WA7QTM9hovQ.

I actually have DD-WRT on my router. So, is there a video I can follow that will help me out with that? I definitely want to be able to remote anywhere I am. I’m assuming this would be fairly secure creating a VPN tunnel thus way.

i still have yet to understand the whole thing with virtualizing pfsense. I can virtualize it easily and what not but the fact that ex hn0 and hn1 are on the same LAN makes no sense to me. I guess unless your using that as a dhcp server and that’s about it.

Logically I always thought about ISP → pfsense → switch → laptop/servers etc.

Do you want to elaborate on this a little ?

https://wiki.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/VPN_(the_easy_way)_v24+

Should get you going.

Yes, it would be quite secure.

There are quite a few videos. First, make sure that you’re using a current version of DD-WRT. [Check ftp://ftp.dd-wrt.com/betas for your router.] Second, decide what kind of VPN you want. You can host either a PPTP or an IPSec VPN (on port 1194). If you were seriously considering PiVPN, then you probably want an IPSec VPN. YouTube has dozens of these setup videos. But before you run a VPN on the router, consider the following: a) Does your router have a robust CPU (and memory)? VPN tunnels require substantial mathematics for encryption and decryption. b) Do you have good backups of your router (firmware and data)? c) Are you comfortable with the Linux command line? If you can say “yes” to these questions, then run a VPN on your router. And in some ways, it is better to do so as you won’t need to do anything special for folks on the LAN to access your resources through the VPN. If you are looking for a good PPTP setup, check out this video: https://youtu.be/bOeBfLPI4WM. For a more detailed discussion of VPN on the router, consider this one: https://youtu.be/14-lGVcKBNA. The second one helps to frame the discussion of certs and keys - but it is general and not specific to DD-WRT. If you haven’t done this kind of stuff before, PiVPN may be your best bet! But since you are already running DD-WRT, I’m going to assume that you are comfortable enough bringing up ssh on your router! :wink:

You also need to decide whether you want to run tunnel or TAP. TUN is much simpler. And you need to decide whether you are going to run TCP or UDP (and on which port).

We used to get spare phone that and shotgun two 56k modems. Was tha shit for Napster. Then I got a demo unit of Starband that i made mobile. First guy in my stAte that had speed; was like that for some time.