Tag: RouterOS
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From iKuai to RouterOS, and Back to Surge VM Gateway
Made with AII moved my home router off iKuai and onto RouterOS CHR running inside PVE — partly because iKuai 4.0's UI is a rough UniFi knock-off, and more worryingly because packet captures have shown it quietly phoning home in the background; and partly because I wanted the router itself to be just another VM. This post covers the RouterOS setup (dual-WAN PPPoE with PCC, a caching DNS resolver, free IP Cloud DDNS, port forwarding with hairpin and NAT loopback), the trick that finally solved a long-standing annoyance — one DDNS name that reaches the public IP from outside but gets looped back to the right internal host by port when I'm home, since a single domain sitting in front of many different internal IPs can't be split by DNS alone — and the conclusion I kept coming back to: the real domestic/overseas traffic splitting belongs on the Surge VM Gateway, not the router. The router does the plumbing; Surge does the brains. Plus a small door-buzzer automation running on the same PVE box.