Are you sure L2 is 192.168.1.0/24 and not something larger that includes 192.168.30.0, e.g.: 192.168.0.0/16?

Bro/Mam/Sir! Bravo!

You absolutely fixed it in one line. My friend stupidly set the netmask as /16 even though he doesn’t need such a large IP pool. I changed it and now WG is working.

There is only one issue remaining, that is my local DNS queries are not being answered on my laptop (On phone + WG, it’s working). But it’s working when I direct my dig queries.

dig server.lan = not working

dig @dns.lan server.lan = working

But ping dns.lan is working. I suspect my DNS IP has not properly percolated to my laptop.

Thanks a lot!!

I’m terribly sorry. I have fixed the case numbers with the item numbers.

I suspect at least part of the problem is that Android does not tunnel hotspot client traffic.

On android, it works fine in all scenarios. The Linux laptop is causing issues. I checked another case (Case 5). If the client is Windows, everything works fine. I’ll try to replicate this on another linux machine and check.

WG running on the Firestick

I had to search a lot but I found a client which works on the first gen Firestick. Check https://airvpn.org/. They still release a compatible WG client on the ancient android/Amazon device.

Hello there. I perfectly understand the risks of my setup. Since it’s a commercial off-the-shelf router, i can’t run a reverse proxy on it, so this is the best that i can do (other than VLANs). It’s also a private network, so I guess it’s fine.

I used a bit of AI which said that such embedded devices don’t work with reverse proxies. Finding which exact parameters as respected by the router will be time-consuming and the end result is not that great.

I wonder why they failed previously 🤔🤔

It’s a streaming PC. Specs don’t really matter. Windows 365@4k60Hz

Microsoft will determine when the PC needs to be booted up as per your employer’s demands 😆

They offer VDI at my workplace but they are so locked down that it’s completely useless for any real work. But I know that some departments do use them. Fuck 'em.

These fuckers themselves have increased the price of PC components and now they have the gall to release this cloud-only PC to “alleviate the problem of the current market scenario”.

I have a sneaking suspicion that these PCs will have some sort of protection so that nothing other than Win365 can run. Maybe a locked bootloader/secureboot?

The OS is fully running on the cloud. You will be given a VM. Everything stays there. You may have to take permission to download a file from the VM onto your local device. You don’t get any choice about telemetry.

“Don’t you guys have internet?”

I might have skipped that cycle. Local always.

It’s funny because we switched from thin clients to fat clients some 30-40 years back.

You can be sure that planned obsolescence can be done much easier on these kind of hardware. One tweak from the backend and “oops, looks like Microslop 365 OS can’t run your thin client”

I’m not using it even if someone is paying me (unless someone hacks the firmware, but that’s a different story)

True selfhosters deploy their own internet

/s

Holy sheet! Looks like my homelab is booked for this entire year.

what protocol does the ISP use over fibre?

Any way to figure this out? The modem they have provided looks like a layer 2 bridge, i.e., it just converts optical frames to ethernet frames. The login/auth process happens on my router.

Honestly the network card that you will probably need might already pull more than the modem

I have a feeling that this is true. I’ll check.

Thanks for the suggestion, I need to get a wattmeter. The ISP modem looks low-powered but it can crank out 500 Mbps.

I eventually want to learn OPNsense, play with VLANs, per-device monitoring, adblocking right at the firewall itself. I will purchase a PC for the firewall for sure. So was thinking would it be better if adding an SFP to it would future proof it. But power is a concern.

This is something I completely forgot to account for. I heard that some SFP modules (10G) can consume a lot of power. I think the devices are pretty low powered. I’ll have to get a smartmeter and rethink the setup. Thanks a lot!