I’m wanting to setup something like OpenVPN but on my eero network so I can access my home network from anywhere. Are there any solutions for this with eero?
I setup a Raspberry PI with OpenVPN. Once it’s setup, just plug the Raspberry Pi into the eero (or into a switch connected to the eero). You will want to create a reservation in eero so the pi always gets the same IP and also open port 1194. I followed this guide which was pretty easy to setup.
There isn’t anything built into eero. Do a search in this /r for vpn. This issue has popped up but I can’t recall the outcome.
Many home routers can be flashed with aftermarket firmware like tomato or Merlin which adds vpn support.
I found the Raspberry Pi option the easiest (since I had one laying around), but you can also install an OpenVPN server on any machine that’s always on and connected to your network.
+1 on this and I’ve used OpenVPN both ways. Here’s a slightly more technical walkthrough.
I’ll have to look into this, thank you
I know there isn’t anything natively built in but maybe someone will know of a third party program that can work for any network that I don’t know of
There is nothing that runs on the eeros themselves but you could setup a raspberry pi or some other small computer and run OpenVPN Server on that. I currently have a box that runs OpenVPN Server on my network and I can connect to it remotely by setting up the correct port forwarding on the eero to pass the correct port to the server.
A nice script for setting one up on a ubuntu box is located here: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-setup-openvpn-server-on-ubuntu-linux-14-04-or-16-04-lts/
Then all you have to do is forward the correct port from the outside to your linux box.