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Share your VPN connection over hotspot or repeater! (root required)
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[Feature] Transparent proxy support #518

Open Mygod opened 7 months ago

Mygod commented 7 months ago

Suggested through email: https://youtu.be/r6nXCgYkXTQ

worstperson commented 4 months ago

I was confused about what this request was, so I'm just going to leave notes here for the next time I read it :p

The video seems to show how to setup an Android device as a second gateway that routes incoming data through a VPN and configure the router to offer it to clients as the default gateway through it's DHCP server. So basically just setting a routing policy and masquerade rule rather than the normal tethering operation.

It's a clever solution for getting network wide VPN when you already have a good upstream (especially if that VPN is platform exclusive or too expensive to run on other hardware).

Mygod commented 3 months ago

Yes the idea is to share VPN with your neighboring nodes on the same network (by asking them to set your device as their gateway), instead of having a hotspot and have them connect to it. This is slightly more technical to set up and I consider this to be too niche and cumbersome to be useful. :)