I got a bunch of self-hosted stuff and use a VPS that has a public IPv4 to access my services because my home network has only DS-Lite. My home server ist connected to the VPS using Wireguard.
Now I want to connect my Smartphone to my VPN to be able to access some local services remotely. I’m able to add a second peer to the Wireguard config on the VPS, but I’m struggeling to configure the AllowedIPs correctly.
The VPS apparently needs AllowedIPs 10.0.0.0/24 and 192.168.178.0/24, but the Smartphone as well for both to redirect request into my home network. But it’s not possible to configure the same IP ranges for two peers. What do I do?

EDIT: Solved: https://iliasa.eu/wireguard-how-to-access-a-peers-local-network/

  • notabot@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    9 months ago

    The allowed IP ranges on the server indicate what private addresses the clients can use, so you should have a separate one for each client. They can be /32 addresses as each client only needs one address and, I’m assuming, doesn’t route traffic for anything else.

    The allowed IP range on each client indicates what private address the server can use, but as the server is also routing traffic for other machines (the other client for example) it should cover those too.

    Apologies that this isn’t better formatted, but I’m away from my machine. For example, on your setup you might use:

    On home server: AllowedIPs 192.168.178.0/24 Address 192.168.178.2

    On phone: AllowedIPs 192.168.178.0/24 Address 192.168.178.3

    On VPS: Address 192.168.178.1 Home server peer: AllowedIPs 192.168.178.2/32

    Phone peer: AllowedIPs 192.168.178.3/32

    • Dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      Thanks, but I have configured a dedicated IP range for my Wireguard network, so the devices have IPs like 10.0.0.1. But I still want to access services in my home network in the IP range 192.168.178.0/24.

      And in your example the AllowedIP = 192.168.178.2/32 of the VPS would still make it possible to route traffic from my smartphone via the VPS to my home server?

      • notabot@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        9 months ago

        Ah, ok. You’ll want to specify two allowedip ranges on the clients, 192.168.178.0/24 for your network, and 10.0.0.0/24 for the other clients. Then your going to need to add a couple of routes:

        • On the phone, a route to 192.168.178.0/24 via the wireguard address of your home server
        • On your home network router, a route to 10.0.0.0/24 via the local address of the machine that is connected to the wireguard vpn. (Unless it’s your router/gateway that is connected)

        You’ll also need to ensure IP forwarding is enabled on both the VPS and your home machine.

        • Dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          I actually don’t know. All I want to achieve is having access from my smartphone to my local network via the VPS, which is the only device with a public IP. So it’s basically a point-to-site connection from my smartphone to my home server with the VPS in between.

          And I just followed a tutorial and that’s why I set up the 10.0.0.0/24 IP range.

  • cannedtuna@lemmy.worldEnglish
    73·
    9 months ago

    This doesn’t address your issue specifically because I haven’t tried personally to use wireguard on my home server. Personally however I’ve been using Tailscale to connect to my home network remotely for DNS redirects through Pihole and to connect to my self-hosted services. I found Tailscale pretty easy to setup. If you can’t get Wireguard figured out you might give it a look as an alternative.

      • dan@upvote.auEnglish
        5·
        9 months ago

        Tailscale does NAT hole punching which really helps when dealing with systems behind NAT or restrictive firewalls. Your phone can connect directly to your home network without having to go through a VPS if you use Tailscale, even if your home internet connection doesn’t have a static IP.

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
    11·
    9 months ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    IP Internet Protocol
    NAT Network Address Translation
    VPN Virtual Private Network
    VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

    5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 30 acronyms.

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  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
    14·
    9 months ago

    Save yourself some trouble and use Ngnix proxy manger.

    Another option is Netbird or Tailscale.