Back when most entry-level Linksys routers were regular ordinary VPN routers?
And they included built-in DynDNS functionality right in the router configuration routine if you wanted to use that too. In case you had a registered domain that you wanted to use for consistent remote access in the face of numerical IP addresses that were subject to change dynamically by your ISP.
Plus of course DynDNS was free as originally intended with no end in sight.
The main obstacle was configuring your remote Windows 98 laptop to make use of the VPN that the router handled on its own. About like configuring bare Wireguard before there was Tailscale.
Eventually Cisco bought Linksys and it was all downhill from there.
Back when most entry-level Linksys routers were regular ordinary VPN routers?
And they included built-in DynDNS functionality right in the router configuration routine if you wanted to use that too. In case you had a registered domain that you wanted to use for consistent remote access in the face of numerical IP addresses that were subject to change dynamically by your ISP.
Plus of course DynDNS was free as originally intended with no end in sight.
The main obstacle was configuring your remote Windows 98 laptop to make use of the VPN that the router handled on its own. About like configuring bare Wireguard before there was Tailscale.
Eventually Cisco bought Linksys and it was all downhill from there.