For those of you who use travel routers, do you only use them to wire guard/ openvpn back to your home networks for local resources?

Do you use the travel routers firewall features at all, or does the VPN tunnel home take care of concerns about others in the public (hotel/ coffee shop/ etc) from seeing your devices?

  • @anamethatisnt
    2•9 months ago

    The default block all incoming and allow all outgoing works fine for me. ARP and such won’t traverse the router and the VPN should be a full tunnel, so no device info except the travel router itself should leak.

    OpenWrt Travelmate is great for this purpose.

    • @rootOP
      1•9 months ago

      Gotcha. I’m using a ATX 1800 with full tunnel. I figured there would be a default deny all (haven’t touched anything in the way of the firewall on that device yet), but wasn’t sure if ARP would be able to get past it from the public AP side. I guess I can always do a few experiments at home in the lab too. Thanks again!