PiVPN - Final Release (No more PiVPN)
I have been running PiVPN with wireguard for almost 4 years now, really great service, but does this mean that it may become a security risk in the future if it is no longer maintained?
Wow! Great service, I’ve probably installed 50 or more instances of it over the years. I can honestly say this saddens me in a weird, small way…
Thank you to all involved! Good luck in all future endeavors
The raspberry pi has kind of become a boring platform to develop for. The shortage made them too expensive to use as appliances. Even after the shortage the new models are just too expensive for what you get. Containers and virtualization make it too easy to use something else.
More embedded-style projects are still fun on it with the gpio. But still I usually price out what I want to do, and then don’t do it because it costs so much.
I have every raspberry pi up to the pi 400, but I haven’t bought a new one since the pi 400 release date.
People aren’t running VPN on their OpenWRT routers? OpenVPN, Wireguard, Tailscale all available. I figured it made more sense to put it on the device that is segmenting and firewalling?
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Hopefully someone worthy forks it and continues all the good work… I mean i’ve set up wireguard manually etc and am able to do that just fine, but for a quick and dirty way to get a VPN up, PiVPN has always been my goto.
I just deployed one of these like a month ago, and it just made life a lot simpler. Great project but I know tailscale has become very popular for people.
I used it to have VPN access to my parents house for when they need help and for off-site backups.
It’s very interesting how many folks use VPN like OpenVPN and Wireguard for home services. It makes sense since it’s coming baked into a lot of soho routers these days. I’m a firm believer that VPN needs to be a dedicated hardware appliance ie: NGFW (Check Point, Palo, Fortinet)
As a secondary it would be Routing and Remote Access builtin to Windows Server, however I generally only leverage that type of solution for an always on solution. Baked into windows is an awesome thing.
Pivpn is nice. But it better configuring OpenVPN on your router
I have a Mikrotik and it works like a charm.
For anyone who don’t know, they released a week after the 4.6.0, the 4.6.1 (Release v4.6.1: Updates on maintenance · pivpn/pivpn · GitHub) mentioning that Pi-VPN will continue to be maintained and it’s already on the 4.7.0 (Release v4.7.0 · pivpn/pivpn · GitHub). I believe it was not the end after all lol
Perhaps not- I believe it just facilities the process of automatically installing, and configuring the needed services.
I “believe” doing apt-get update or yum update would still update the openvpn and/or wireguard installed on the box.
But- do not quote me on this.
Well the pi is weird and small so your feelings are valid
I stopped using them years ago. The price is… too high.
But- PiVPN isn’t specific to raspberry pi. works on most linux distros.
Don’t forget about them them doing this
That’s more or less what the post says. New solutions have passed PiVPN by
Some of us are stubborn and don’t want to upgrade our router lol. I’m running OpenWRT on a dual core router but the chip doesn’t support hardware encoding for the VPN so it maxes out at 50mbps. Having PIVPN as a VM got me way higher speeds…I will upgrade my router soon I just don’t feel like reconfiguring everything lol
Have you tried softether ( https://www.softether.org/ ) ?
As a secondary it would be Routing and Remote Access builtin to Windows Server, however I generally only leverage that type of solution for an always on solution. Baked into windows is an awesome thing.
Eh… lets agree to disagree on this one!
Windows lacks a lot of flexibility needed. It doesn’t support modern VPN protocols. It doesn’t support advanced routing, routing protocols, etc… and it’s NAT implementation and flexibility is in the stone ages compared to linux.
Oh, I agree fully. I would always recommend your VPN solution be installed/integrated with your networking stack.
But- it was a really nice project, that made it effortless for less technically inclined individuals to get a secure VPN up and running.