VPN considerations

Ainsophaur · 2017-03-19T22:58:50+00:00

I'm in the process of choosing my equipment for my home surveillance system. I'm leaning toward Dahua products. I will obviously want to see my cameras from my smart phone or computer when I'm away from home. So I'm curious what I will need to implement to make sure that is possible. My home network is as follows: INTERNET--->CABLE MODEM/ROUTER--->Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X--->Ubiquiti POE EdgeSwitch--->Ubiquiti UniFi I currently use the VPN service PRIVATE INTERNET ACCESS (PIA) It's set up on my computers and smart phone currently. Is there a way to integrate PIA into my LAN so that all devices on the LAN route their traffic through the VPN? Is there a way to utilize PIA as a tunnel back to my home network in order to access my surveillance cameras? I've read that port forwarding is a big security no-no, right? I've watched tutorials that explain how to set up L2TP VPN on the EdgeRouter to allow tunneling into a range of device IPs on the network. Is that all I need to do to make it possible to access my NVR? Thanks in advance for your help. This is an amazing forum and I've learned so much already.