I work from home in the US but have to go to Asia for a month. I have a work computer which has its own VPN
that I connect to. The thing is, I don’t want my company to know that I am going to be in Asia for a month and I am pretty sure they can track my computer’s logs if they want to.
I’ve read about Raspberry PI, but I don’t really know how it works. Can I convert Raspberry PI into a VPN router? How? Do I connect my internet to the VPN router?
Will Raspberry PI, if converted to a VPN router, work if I then have to connect to my company’s VPN?
As you can tell, I am not very familiar with tech so my apologies for any confusion. Pretty much, my main goal is I’d love to know how I can set up Raspberry PI as a VPN router (or any router for that matter) so that when I connect to my work computer’s VPN while traveling abroad, my IP address will still be a US IP address.
Yes this is possible, but if your company is strict about it and has a good IT department, considering you are starting as a novice there is a very good chance you will slip up, reveal yourself, and lose your job.
Don’t put the VPN client on your work computer (if you even can), that’s too risky. You need your VPN client on you travel router. This could be a Raspberry Pi, but it only has one ethernet port and crappy wifi, so a “travel router” is better, GL-iNet has some good ones.
Then you need a VPN server. You can use the common VPN services, but if your employer’s IT is savvy they will easily identify that you are using a commercial VPN to obfuscate your actual location. The safer option is to have a VPN server on your home network, and the Raspberry Pi is actually a great device for that use. You will also need decent home internet for this to work, as sending all your data through the connection limits you to the slower of your upload/download speeds.
I’m doing something similar to what is written up in the wiki, using a travel router and connecting to a private VPN server inside the US. I’m currently out of the US but my IP address shows I’m inside the US.
Thank you. Yeah just reading about how to set up Raspberry PI is already giving me a headache lol.
Do you know when they will be releasing the new one? Also, both old and new versions will enable me to spoof my location to US even when I’m in Asia right?
