In my last post I talked about setting up a VPN tunnel to my home network using Wireguard, but did you know that Wireguard also makes for a good IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnel?

If you have an interest in Linux networking, by now you've probably heard of Wireguard. In case you haven't, it's a newer cross-platform VPN whose main attraction is that it's way way easier to set up on Linux than other VPNs that have come before it. If you've ever had to set up an IPSec VPN using Racoon or Openswan or StrongSwan or any other weird animal-based tool, then you know how much of a royal pain in the ass it is.

While I was on a tear improving my home network, I decided to finally bite the bullet and set Wireguard up on my router and laptop, allowing me to securely connect to my home network from anywhere. This post outlines what I did to make that happen, in case you want to replicate it in your own home network.

Fair bit of warning though: I'm assuming that you already have basic knowledge of networking: subnetting, routing, that kind of stuff.

Continuing on my adventure of running my own self-built router at home, I decided to get IPv6 running on my home network. As of writing this blog post, my ISP doesn't do native IPv6 yet so I decided to go with Hurricane Electric's IPv6 Tunnel Broker service, which provides you with an IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnel.

In my last post I talked about getting my home router up and forwarding packets from nothing and getting my computers connected via Ethernet. The next step is to get 802.11 (WiFi) working.

This is the first of a series of blog posts on building my own home router from scratch using Debian. My hopes are that by sharing my experiences, it can help others in this endeavor.