VPN gateway setup for home network

Hello. I think that in the coming months, heavy restrictions will be imposed on the use of VPN services due to all this age and identity verification madness. I’m not sure how effective the censorship circumvention methods of the VPN providers recommended on this platform really are. Still, it looks like we’ll have to resort to these methods one day.

According to Mullvad’s own statements, its censorship circumvention methods work only in its official apps.

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Using Mullvad VPN in restrictive locations

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The situation is the same for Proton, except for the Linux app.

Proton VPN – 6 Oct 22

Defeat censorship with Stealth, our new VPN protocol | Proton VPN

Stealth is a new VPN protocol from Proton VPN that overcomes censorship in restrictive countries.

IVPN’s censorship circumvention features are available for all desktop applications and iOS (Obfuscation with V2Ray on iOS - IVPN Help); for now, there are no similar features for Android. Additionally, special setups can be made for standalone “obfs” proxies that work on Linux and OpenWRT, and their guides mention these.

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OpenWrt - OBFS3 and OBFS4 Obfuscation with Obfsproxy and OpenVPN - IVPN Help

OpenWrt - OBFS3 and OBFS4 Obfuscation with Obfsproxy and OpenVPN In some countries (like China, Iran, Russia, Vietnam, etc.), the government utilizes a very restrictive firewall and enforces local ISPs to throttle and block the traffic via Deep...

I’m looking for a setup that allows me to connect my entire home network to the internet using the official apps of the VPN providers I mentioned above, so that I can enable their censorship circumvention features if needed. Through my online research, I learned that an average user[1] like me can configure a simple Linux single board computer running 24/7 to function as a VPN gateway.

The ideas and recommendations of this community are still very precious to many people like me. Do you think there’s an easier and more functional method that works for everyone, or does the VPN gateway do the job well enough? Perhaps a guide could be created with contributions from expert members.

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Allow ANY device on YOUR network to use a VPN connection to access the Internet

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1. I’m talking about people with limited networking knowledge who don’t host a server at home and don’t use virtualization or container technologies on a daily basis. ↩︎