HELP: Wireguard for home network with remote exit node (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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I am looking for some advice on how to (if possible) setup a wireguard network for my home network and when I am connected to that network have a remote wireguard server act as an exit node, so that all external traffic appears to be coming from that remote server whilst keeping traffic bound for the home network local (only accessible via wireguard network)

Local server is a Debian box and other devices will run a flavour of linux. Remote server is already running wireguard and I can connect to that if I bring up a route on each device, but ideally I want to connect to my home net and automatically have outbound traffic go via the remote server. The remote server's wireguard config is not under my control, which may make this unfeasible

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[-] portnull@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Thank you for everyone's help and input. I have it working now, albeit not in the way I had hoped (not using docker containers for it) but it works. I followed https://thedevquill.substack.com/p/setting-up-a-tailscale-exit-node but instead of using the NordVPN image I used the plain Wireguard client image. In the wireguard compose I set network_mode: container:wireguard. Now when I connect tailscale over the exit node, traffic is going out over the wireguard IP

[-] stratself@lemdro.id 2 points 1 month ago

Hey, glad you got it working. I'm late to the party, but I got a similar solution here: https://github.com/stratself/tswg. Basically just mounts your own wg.conf to the container and get Tailscale connected over it

Since Wireguard is peer-to-peer, I suppose the "intended" way is to install Tailscale on every client. But it is possible to use the router as a VPN gateway as per this [OpenWRT guide])https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/vpn/tailscale/start#force_lan_traffic_to_route_through_exit_node). Hope you get it working anyhow

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