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I am continuing to set up my home server on FreeBSD 14.3, which is intended to serve as a NAS.
In the previous post, FreeBSD: introduction to Packet Filter (PF) firewall, we got acquainted with firewalls; the next step is to configure a VPN for access.
The main idea is to (finally!) connect my “office” and my apartment, and later, perhaps, also connect the server where rtfm.co.ua is currently running so that blog files and database backups can be stored directly on the ZFS mirror pool of the home server.
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WireGuard vs OpenVPN
When it came to choosing which specific VPN server to use, I initially thought about OpenVPN – since I’ve worked with it for years, and there are even some blog posts about it on RTFM.
However, after giving it some thought, I decided that for a home VPN, solutions like OpenVPN or Pritunl would be a bit of overkill, and I could give WireGuard a try.
The systems are very different, but in short:
WireGuard has a much smaller codebase – for example, the Linux implementation is about 4,000 lines in the kernel, while OpenVPN is about 100,000 lines in user space
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