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How to access home network (eg, VPN) without port forwarding? (feddit.uk)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Flax_vert@feddit.uk to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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So basically, I will be away from home for several weeks. Unfortunately, this became the perfect time for our home router to start acting out and factory resetting itself. We are awaiting a new router for replacement, but the time is tight.

My stuff is ethernetted in, so that connectivity isn't an issue - the issue is that I couldn't actually connect to the router to restore services even if it had internet by fixing all the settings including port forwarding.

What I would like would be the ability to have a VPN perhaps connected to my homelab, so I can hop on the router and restore the settings if this issue happens while I'm away. Any ideas?

Edit: I settled on Netbird. Thank you for your help!

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[–] itsworkthatwedo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

If the router reconnects to the internet when it factory resets and it still works as a gateway, there may still be hope. You'd need some SSH host on another machine behind the router; you'd probably also need some sort of minimal VPS. You could setup a reverse SSH tunnel on the SSH host that would tunnel through the router to the VPS, then you'd be able to connect through the VPS into your network.

Honestly tho, this is a lot of work and if time is tight you might just wanna roll to a store and buy whatever cheap router you can find to limp along til you get back.