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?
@Flax_vert I don’t get the hate of poet forwarding. Wireguard is very secure and if it doesn’t get the handshake port just shoes as closed.
Because if my router factory resets, the ports are closed
The more open ports, the larger the attack surface.
That’s all.
And today with the script kiddies out there, port scans happen all the time.
I’ve had a consumer router become almost useless from all the attempted connections on an open port someone found that I had up for a week.
Months later I’d still get hits on that port though it had been closed.