Best way to route laptop's internet traffic through my home network?

[n3wbie]

I'm sure this has been covered before, but I've been doing a lot of reading and am confused on the best way to go about doing this.

I have a static IP at my home and it is whitelisted by APIs provided by companies, and by my VPS for things like MySQL access. I need to do work remotely on my laptop and need to route my traffic through my home IP address.

From what I've read, using an SSH tunnel might work well for this type of situation, but I'm unsure of how to implement this. Would this be something I would setup on my router (ASUS RT-N66U), or would I need to set up some sort of proxy server on my desktop and always leave it on? Or is there a better solution altogether?

 

[mv2devnull]

I have a static IP at my home

Where? In the router? Probably.

Equally probably the router hands out a private IP for your laptop and performs NAT (Network Address Translation). From the viewpoint of the internet, your home has exactly one device (even if you had a dozen laptops) and that device has the public static IP.

 

[CA19100]

I believe a VPN connection would do exactly what you want; I do the same thing when I want to watch Netflix and I'm out of the country.

I have an ASUS RT-N56U, and it includes a VPN server; the N66U also appears to as well. I'm sure this is also covered in its manual, but here's a link that explains how to set it up:

http://www.strayed.co.uk/2013/12/07/asus-rt-n66u-vpn-server-set-up/


Once it's online, you can log into it from your computer or smartphone (procedure varies depending on OS), and all your traffic will pass through it; it's as if you're plugged into your home network.

 

[serpretetsky]

Where? In the router? Probably.

Equally probably the router hands out a private IP for your laptop and performs NAT (Network Address Translation). From the viewpoint of the internet, your home has exactly one device (even if you had a dozen laptops) and that device has the public static IP.

He wasn't asking, he was telling. He has a static public ip handed to him from his ISP.

Some sort of VPN solution would be the most "native" experience. All of your network traffic would go to your home first, and then go where ever it needs to be. Basically it's as if you're directly connected to your home network.

http proxies work as well, but they will only route http traffic (is that all you need? web based stuff?)

ssh can forward traffic as well, I'm not as familiar with the setup and what it will forward.

For all of these you will need some computer/appliance turned on inside your network accepting the connection and doing the forwarding.

 

[Mushkins]

You want to set up a VPN to your home router *WITHOUT* split tunneling. This will route all of your traffic to your home network and establish exactly what you want to do.

Dont forget to disable split tunneling though.