u/Jakob4800

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What are Mergers like?

Recently the MSP I work for has been aquired by a larger offshore company. They say "partnership" but it's a purchase, rebrand, etc. I'm curious what genuenly can I expect?

The meeting said nothing much will change as we use similar tool sets, no planned lay offs (yet), but I don't really trust corperate speak.

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u/Jakob4800 — 3 days ago

Review AI generated plan.

Forgive me tech enthusiasts for I have sinned. I couldn't figure out a solution so I caved and asked chatGPT. Can someone please review its output and tell me if it will work?

Effectively what I want to do is set up my home network so anyone who uses it would go to "YouTube.com" (example) and have only that network traffic pass through a VPN. Whilst all other traffic just goes through my normal DNS system.

Why? I don't want to have to turn on my VPN to look at pornhub!

AI plan:

Here's the plan:

You buy the ASUS RT-AX54HP V2.

You flash OpenWrt. OpenWrt currently lists support for the RT-AX54 / RT-AX54HP family.

You install ProtonVPN on OpenWrt, ideally with WireGuard. Proton has an official OpenWrt + WireGuard guide and explicitly recommends WireGuard over OpenVPN for this setup.

You run AdGuard Home as your DNS server on the router. OpenWrt's AdGuard Home docs note that AdGuard Home can do ipset-style policies for VPN split tunneling.

You create a rule for domains like youtube.com, googlevideo.com, and ytimg.com so those resolved IPs get placed into a set that OpenWrt can route through the VPN. That is the important part: not just a visual "tag," but a DNS-to-ipset/nftset policy that the router can act on.

OpenWrt then uses firewall/policy routing rules so traffic to those IPs goes out the ProtonVPN WireGuard interface, while everything else uses your normal WAN/ISP. Proton's base guide shows the VPN interface and firewall zone setup; by default their guide routes all traffic through the VPN, so your extra step is selective policy routing instead of "send everything to VPN."

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u/Jakob4800 — 8 days ago