Hey, great post. I have one request. Can you maybe add some description for what the iptables entries do? I have a similar setup with a lot less iptables rules that works well for me. But I'm not an expert in networking, and am now worried that I might be missing something that can leak my home IP.
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Thanks for the feed back. I started out with that post I referenced in my article, which had fewer entries. It didn't work. Caveat was although the online port checkers were reporting the port as open, it was not actually making through the tunnel!
I actually solved it by asking chatgpt!! I put in the suggestions and it worked. I'm also no expert on creating iptables, but once it was in place it seemed self explanatory.
I ran netcat as client-server to test it actually worked.
Thanks for the nice write-up, saving it in case I find myself behind CGNAT in the future.
another option is to use Cloudflare's tunnels. it's free, I use it all the time. really great.
I've set up some tunnels. Works nice but then the voices came. 'Why would you trust a company like Cloudflare with all your data?' 'Why rely on this one company for all your services?'
Nearly a year into my selfhosting journey and I'm more confused than ever.
Yeah it's a popular choice for various things. But wouldn't it be against TOS using it for p2p and that amount of traffic?
gotta admit I haven't read the ToS, but I didn't encounter any problems. I'm streaming GBs of music via the tunnel and it still works. p2p I didn't try, but I don't really see a reason to?
Huh, good to know. I'm out remember some of us have traffic in the TBs pretty month!