So basically, I will be away from home for several weeks. Unfortunately, this became the perfect time for our home router to start acting out and factory resetting itself. We are awaiting a new router for replacement, but the time is tight.
My stuff is ethernetted in, so that connectivity isn’t an issue - the issue is that I couldn’t actually connect to the router to restore services even if it had internet by fixing all the settings including port forwarding.
What I would like would be the ability to have a VPN perhaps connected to my homelab, so I can hop on the router and restore the settings if this issue happens while I’m away. Any ideas?
You could setup netbird on a jump server (VPS hosted somewhere) and have a machine inside your home network tunnel out to the netbird server, allowing reverse tunnel access inside of your network. Lowendbox has some good deals on VPS that would work well for this. This is what I do.
If you don’t want to pay for a VPS, you could use your laptop or whatever you’re going to use while traveling to be the netbird server. Use a DDNS service or just manually update a DNS record for a domain to point at your travel device IP and the home device should be able to tunnel out and make the connection to the netbird server on your travel device. Not a great long term solution, but would work in a pinch and domains are fairly cheap if you don’t have one already.
Netbird is pretty great for this type of thing and there are some good guides on YT for getting it up and running. You could even relay a reverse tunnel connection through a device inside your network to your homelab or the router.