Hosted Firewalla VPN?

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Abbas Jaffar Ali

• March 01, 2021 18:29

This is probably a very niche request but is there any hosted Firewall VPN provider that I can subscribe to? My ISP is very restrictive blocking VoIP and other services and VERY aggressive in blocking named VPN providers like Express and Nord. If there is a Firewalla VPN hosted somewhere that I can connect to as a client, that would probably go under their radar.

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  Firewalla

  • March 01, 2021 19:51

  Sorry, we do not provide any VPN services.  We do have VPN server (which runs on your firewalla) and also VPN client (allows you to connect to 3rd party VPN), and also site to site VPN to connect two firewalla together. (or multiple)

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  mastadon extinction

  • March 15, 2021 04:18
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  to get around your ISP's issues with VPN's, I'd do this. Let me say this would be easier with Wireguard imo but that's coming I believe. In the meantime,  rent the cheapest cloud VPS you can find and install a VPN server on it. Connect your firewall vpn client to your own  VPN server hosted in the cloud. Then on your server in the cloud, Wireguard VPN connect to a paid Wireguard VPN service of your choosing. Use routing tables to direct all traffic from your VPN server in the cloud to the Wireguard connection.   Your isp will only see you VPN to your own hosted cloud server. They won't be able to see that your server in the cloud is then relaying that data via Wireguard to a commercial VPN. 

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  Abbas Jaffar Ali

  • March 15, 2021 04:33

  Thanks for this. I'll look into it

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  Sukumar Patel

  • March 15, 2021 09:33

  Check out Tailscale. 

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  Abbas Jaffar Ali

  • March 15, 2021 14:47

  Hvent heard of Tailscale before. So do I set it up on a cloud server or something?

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  Sukumar Patel

  • March 15, 2021 15:35

  Tailscale will sit at your home. It will allow your phpone to connect to home network. 
  Regarding hosted VPN from outside, you can set up a OpenVPN on a free tier oracle Cloud and use it as the VPN client in FWG

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  Weiemfow

  • October 20, 2023 14:02

  How to implement Tailscale on Firewalla?

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