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This still seems too difficult for the average person who isn't a sysadmin, but still wants to protect their privacy. Python? Virtualenv? Config files? Ugh. My

This still seems too difficult for the average person who isn't a sysadmin, but still wants to protect their privacy. Python? Virtualenv? Config files? Ugh. My ideal VPN appliance would be a minimal Busybox-based disk image that updates using A/B partitions and has a nice web UI. It lets you set basic things like the hostname, time, admin password, and then regenerates all of /etc. A cross-platform GUI setup wizard uploads the disk image to a VPS provider, you get back a URL for the web UI with clear client setup instructions, and that's it. If an update becomes available, you click a button, it downloads the new image to the idle partition, modifies the GRUB config to boot from it, and restarts. Done.

hwdsl2 9y ago
You can easily build your own IPsec VPN server using a one-liner [1], with support for both IPsec/L2TP and Cisco IPsec. Disclosure: I am the author of this repo. [1] https://github.com/hwdsl2/setup-ipsec-vpn https://github.com/hwdsl2/setup-ipsec-vpn
danvittegleo 9y ago
I read your comment a week ago and fully agreed that I wanted something similar. So I built this: https://github.com/dan-v/dosxvpn https://github.com/dan-v/dosxvpn * It is an OSX packaged app that launches a GUI wizard and deploys to digitalocean, auto configures VPN on OSX, and spits out a mobileconfig file. * It is based on CoreOS (not busybox) but it set to auto update the OS using A/B partitions. * VPN docker image running on droplet is also configured to auto update