So, my friend has a fully-remote job, but his employer only allows him to work within the state the company is based in. He is planning to move outside of that state, but isn’t prepared to quit his job yet.

To evade detection from IT, this friend wants to set up some sort of VPN tunnel to leave with a relative within the original state, to route the traffic from his work laptop (which is locked down via JAMF software) through. The family he’s leaving this setup with isn’t tech savvy, and wouldn’t be able to troubleshoot anything beyond powercycling a device or plugging in an ethernet cable.

What would he need to do to set up such a tunnel, ideally with remote access to adjust settings/troubleshoot, and how does he ensure that his work laptop never exposes an out-of-state IP to his employer?

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  • Vince@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Hmm, not sure if this will help, but I bought an Asus router a couple years ago and discovered last year it had this functionality built in. Really easy to setup on the router, installed openvpn client on phone and laptop and now I have access to my home network.

    Works pretty flawlessly for me, but I should mention that Asus has had some security issues in the past, but they did release updates pretty quickly