Finally Seeing a Solution to My VPN Reverse Proxy Issue 🎉

I wanted to share a breakthrough I had with my VPN reverse proxy issue. After watching this super insightful video, I realized that the collisions I kept facing when trying to resolve my local network subnets through the VPN could be mitigated with a travel router. 🚀 The beauty of it is that I can easily reconfigure the subnet on the travel router to avoid collisions with my LAN. Problem solved!

In other news, I've been diving into setting up Opnsense and NetBox. 💻 Here are a few thoughts and experiences:

NetBox Setup

NetBox is pretty powerful, but I was surprised to find out that the setup is fully manual and only supports CSV imports by hand. 🤔 I read that the authors are quite opinionated about it being the source of truth, which is fair. However, some sort of automated data import would be a nice touch. I'll continue experimenting to see how useful it can be in my setup.

Opnsense Setup

Setting up Opnsense was a bit of a journey. It took a considerable amount of time to finally see the GUI in the browser. The main challenge was figuring out the necessary VLANs. Thankfully, this awesome article saved the day. 🙌

Opnsense has a fairly steep learning curve, but it’s definitely a step in the right direction for organizing my network. I've been meaning to get my head around either Traefik or Nginx Manager as a reverse proxy, and this setup feels like I'm moving closer to that goal. 🚀

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Overall, it's been a productive week filled with learning and problem-solving. I still haven't figured out how to effectively route VPN subdomains but I'm getting there.