[defaultrouteuk]

Dear Community,

As part of the IRIXNET Fall Lounge Launch / drive I need some volunteers (guinea pigs) to test the VPN service(s).

I’m hoping for a good take up and I want to make sure this premium service hits the ground running with as few incidents as possible.

The top tier product will be an un-contended and un-capped PUBLIC IP routed tunnel. Essentially the customer is able to host their home lab on the public internet. Other products include private IPv4 for fire-walled  LAN gaming and access to walled garden services.

Anyway, long story short there will be a number of options depending on Tier and it’s a minefield if configuration that I want to document and check.

THE DEAL
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I am offering five (5) free Tier-1 seats for three (3) months to anyone interested to help me evaluate the install. 

CAVEATS
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For the entirety of your tenure, you will be required to regularly log any access issues, provide your user experience feedback and remain online 24:7 for my monitoring system to be able to collect telemetry data for availability and round trip times.

I need to take at least one (1) volunteer from each of the following geographic regions: Americas, EMEA, APAC.

VOLUNTEERING 
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Just reply to this thread. 1st come, first served.

Best regards
Rich

[GeekLucanis]

Is this on all the major platforms?

[defaultrouteuk]

Hi @GeekLucanis,

There are a number of options:

i) OpenVPN, with clients for all major OS platforms (Windows/macOS/Linux) as well as Android/iOS.
ii) SSTP / L2TP with clients represented by almost every platform I can imagine.

The main takeaway here is we're not targeting mobile users in this giveaway. We're specifically trying to target enthusiasts and hobby/homelab nerds where you have a router at home with capability to use the VPN, dial-in and leave it online. For example, I have an ASUS GT AC5300 and connected using OVPN and L2TP just fine. Then all my kit NAT's off my router onto the VPN where it is routed out. I host a webserver and some other services from the router. If you want it you can have IPv6 too, got buckets of that.

So there is a tiny difference between a commercial VPN like PIA,Nord,Shark etc where you are usually given a private IP address and this one where you a public IP address. It is not NATed nor are you protected - you are for all intent and purpose on the INTERNET as a node. So you could host a web server across it, open up an SSH hole...we can setup a reverse DNS record for you...it's like that.

Hopefully I closed out your question.

All the best
Rich

[Lady Serena Kitty]

I'm using FreeBSD and I'd be happy to halp. I just need config info. Guides would be halpful.

[defaultrouteuk]

Hi, yeah sure that is absolutely what I should’ve done before I posted :-) however, and this is not meant to put you off, the idea here was to pitch to enthusiasts with a home lab.

So if I was explaining this correctly I am imagining a bunch of equipment (SGI, SUN, HP, IBM, Amiga) connected to a home lab switch or network and you’ve been building out your own version of a productive environment. You’ve got some servers doing stuff you love but maybe you want to show the world a piece of what you’ve been doing. You can do a collocation but then you’re heavy lifting everything into a rack in some data center you can’t reach.

So here’s a pipe into a public data center with a public IP space blah blah blah.

You know what, I’m gonna go away and do a HOWTO on this. Regarding FreeBSD, I don’t see why we could not get that to work as a host.

Thanks for throwing your hat in the ring. You’re in!