Need help - reverse VPN?

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Soldato
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Hi all,

I'm hoping some of you clever people can help me.
I would like to access a number of local apps when I am away from home (e.g. Home Assistant, Docker etc)

I have a static external IP.

I presume I could port forward to the local IP & Ports but I imagine that's not very secure.

Any advice on how to do this?
Router - Smart Hub 2 with Netgear Orbi mesh
Thank you!
 
I haven’t done it (yet) but I was reading about a slightly more secure way of doing this without port forwarding but also without having to use a VPN. Cloudflare Tunnel or Tailscale seemed to be the common recommendations
 
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You could configure a VPN server on the inside of your network and connect to that, essentially putting you on the inside of your network, this isn't a reverse VPN, just a VPN.

Another approach, you could configure a reverse proxy, assuming everything you want to access is a web front end. You'd still have to port forward to your reverse proxy however.

You could also install something like Guacamole, which would allow you to RDP/VNC/SSH/Telnet into devices inside you network.

I have all three of the above for different purposes.
 
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