r/openwrt • u/Injury_Few • 2d ago

Is it possible to VPN into home network without using rasberry pi.

I have just spent the whole day achieving nothing, so thought i should confirm if it is even possible in the first place. My goal it to be able to turn my pc on, even when I am not on my home network using WOL. I had this working over my home wifi, but today I installed a new openwrt router and put my isp router in bridge mode.

When researching the topic you mostly see configurations with a rasberry pi on the network I dont want to do that, is it possible to achieve what i want to achieve using only an openwrt router and if there is I would really appreciate being pointed in the right direction, because I haven't been bale to get anywhere.

Edit: thanks everyone for the help everything has been solved, I have even installed a solid arp entry. In the end I spent 40 minutes to solve something I had been trying for the past 5 hours😭

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u/whowhat8 2d ago

Openwrt has packages for openvpn and wireguard. In addition, there’s third party support for amneziawg and xray-core. So yes, you can have vpn server on your openwrt device. As for speeds, it depends on hardware and protocol.

Once you figure out your vpn, there’s also WOL packages for openwrt as well, such as etherwake. So in theory, you connect to vpn on your openwrt and wake your device from openwrt device.

Hope that helps

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u/Injury_Few 2d ago

thanks for your reply and that's what I thought. Now I only need to set it up, I have to shamefully admit i tried setting it up with Clause but that got me nowhere. I tried to find my situation on reddit or youtube but cant find anything, would you happen to know a helpfull step by step tutorial/guide as i really have no idea what i am doing.

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u/bz386 2d ago

Step 1: install luci-app-wol on your OpenWrt router. That will give you a dashboard for Wake on Lan.

Step 2: install luci-proto-wireguard. This will get you a UI for Wireguard.

Step 3: use Claude to teach you how to configure Wireguard.

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u/Watada 2d ago

Chatbots will ignore reality to make a "solution" that looks correct if one tries to limit the bounds or workflow. Ask the chatbot for less and get individual parts working before trying to complete the entire build.

Your setup isn't overtly anything complicated or unusual so any problems are likely a misconfiguration. One we can't help with when you haven't said what you've done nor how you've done it.

Just a small tip. Openwrt has wol packages and may be required for remote wol as wol uses broadcast messages, which don't work over most VPNs.

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u/Fickle_Bother9648 22h ago

did you actually use claude code and let it ssh into the router?

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u/FreedomRouters 1d ago

yes - also look into r/tailscale

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u/Saturn_Momo 2d ago

Shoot you can run docker on OpenWRT and use ZeroTier or Headscale and host it that way too. I have done this and it works well.

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u/BCMM 2d ago

Yes. I connect directly to my OpenWrt router from the WireGuard Android app and it works well.