Hello all, and thanks again to all of the posters who make this a great, helpful forum!
I am interested in setting up remote (WAN) access into Blue Iris for my Windows laptop and my android phone. After reading the VPN Primer by @nayr, I’m leaning toward setting up OpenVPN.
I am trying to determine the pros/cons of:
a) Running OpenVPN on the PC that runs Blue Iris.
b) Running OpenVPN on an ASUS router.
From a security point of view, (from what I understand), doing “a” would require that I forward a port-forward from my router to the Blue Iris machine running Open VPN. The idea of port forwarding makes me uncomfortable, but in this case, I’d be port forwarding to an OpenVPN server, so perhaps it is ok??
On the other hand, doing (a) takes the VPN crypto burden off of the router which, I guess, allows the router to devote more resources to allocate to its other functions?
Any input on which would be simpler to setup? I gather that the PC route requires me to maintain a Dynamic DNS service (are there any good free providers remaining?), whereas Dynamic DNS seems to be free through the ASUS router.
Any other considerations I should be thinking about?
Thanks!
I am interested in setting up remote (WAN) access into Blue Iris for my Windows laptop and my android phone. After reading the VPN Primer by @nayr, I’m leaning toward setting up OpenVPN.
I am trying to determine the pros/cons of:
a) Running OpenVPN on the PC that runs Blue Iris.
b) Running OpenVPN on an ASUS router.
From a security point of view, (from what I understand), doing “a” would require that I forward a port-forward from my router to the Blue Iris machine running Open VPN. The idea of port forwarding makes me uncomfortable, but in this case, I’d be port forwarding to an OpenVPN server, so perhaps it is ok??
On the other hand, doing (a) takes the VPN crypto burden off of the router which, I guess, allows the router to devote more resources to allocate to its other functions?
Any input on which would be simpler to setup? I gather that the PC route requires me to maintain a Dynamic DNS service (are there any good free providers remaining?), whereas Dynamic DNS seems to be free through the ASUS router.
Any other considerations I should be thinking about?
Thanks!