Intro

Currennt world is rapidly evolving towards the use of VPNs. Different companies are offering different solutions for the same problem. However you can manage everuthing yourself. You can use your own VPN server and host on service like DigitalOcean. This gives the following advantages:

  • you control the server and can use it for your own purposes
  • there is no 3rd party companies involved
  • easy to Setup
  • hight speed and low latency because you are the only user on your own server
  • high privacy and security
  • you can use it for your own purposes
  • IPV6 support

Please follow the instruction on my github to setup your own WireGuard VPN server in a couple of minutes.

Wireguard VPN with IPV6 external ip setup howto

Wireguard setup using Docker on DigitalOcean

  1. Create DigitalOcean Account https://digitalocean.com
  2. Download Wireguard Client app on your device https://www.wireguard.com/install/
  3. Create a new droplet with the following settings: You need to define User Data to run the following commands:
#!/bin/bash

# Install needed software
apt-get -y update
apt-get -y install nginx git curl

export PUBLIC_IPV4=$(curl -s http://169.254.169.254/metadata/v1/interfaces/public/0/ipv4/address)
echo Droplet: $HOSTNAME, IP Address: $PUBLIC_IPV4 > /var/www/html/index.html

# get Docker
curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh
sh get-docker.sh

# get Wireguard
git clone https://github.com/VadzimBelski-ScienceSoft/wireguard-docker-setup-howto.git
cd wireguard-docker-setup-howto
        
# enable ip forwarding in sysctl

echo "net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1" >> /etc/sysctl.conf
echo "net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding = 1" >> /etc/sysctl.conf
echo "net.ipv6.conf.default.forwarding = 1" >> /etc/sysctl.conf
echo "net.ipv6.conf.all.proxy_ndp = 1" >> /etc/sysctl.conf

sysctl -p

# run the script
./run.sh

# run IPV6 setup script
./ipv6.sh
  1. Wait for the droplet to be ready.
  2. Navigate to http://server_ip here you will find Wireguard client configs. Please note they will be deleted from public access with in 10 minutes, so hurry up.
  3. Please check you IPv6 connectivity here https://test-ipv6.com/
  4. You can check you public ip here to verify that tunnel works correctly https://whoer.net/