Any more innovation on using a VPN on a router?
Privacy Guides Community [Unofficial]
May 27, 2026
privacy.slouchy:
> Why do you imply that this single wireguard config is insufficient? What do you think would be gained by a phone-like VPN config app at the router level?
All the functionality and security that the plain wireguard-go package on openWRT misses compared to what Mullvad offers for starters. Have you even used OpenWRT?
privacy.slouchy:
> Is there a compelling reason you’d want to manage this at the router level?
Android’s always on VPN blocks LAN traffic, aggregating multiple devices into a segmented VPN VLAN saves everyone’s CPU cycles, centralizes the management, saves up devices slots and allows unsupported devices to use the VPN connection.
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