Netgear WireGuard Setup Guide
Most consumer Netgear routers (Nighthawk, Orbi) do not support WireGuard in stock firmware. Your options are: flash OpenWrt (if your model is supported), or place a GL.iNet router behind your Netgear.
Check if OpenWrt supports your model
Visit openwrt.org/toh/start (Table of Hardware) and search for your Netgear model.
If your model is listed with "Supported" status, you can flash OpenWrt and follow the OpenWrt guide.
Alternative: use a GL.iNet router
The easiest approach for most Netgear users:
- Buy a GL.iNet travel router (GL-MT3000, GL-AXT1800, etc.) — ~$50–80
- Connect it to your Netgear via LAN port
- Follow the GL.iNet setup guide
- The GL.iNet acts as your WireGuard tunnel device
Netgear PR-series business routers
If you have a PR460X or PR60X, WireGuard is built-in since firmware 2.5.0.66.
Go to VPN → WireGuard in the management UI and import your config. The firmware handles NAT automatically.
Good to know
Reaching more than one VLAN
One LAN needs nothing beyond this guide. If the site has several VLANs (a camera VLAN, a PBX VLAN, a guest network), there is one more thing to know.
ProxyLink gives every gateway its own private address range and translates between that
range and your real LAN addresses. That is what lets two different clients both use
192.168.1.0/24
without colliding. The translation rules live in the
PostUp and
PostDown
lines of the config we generate.
Netgear cannot run those rules for itself, so extra VLANs are routed directly instead of being translated. Two consequences worth knowing:
- Add the VLAN under your gateway → VLAN subnets as normal, then add the equivalent forwarding rules for that VLAN on the device yourself.
- Because the range is not translated, ProxyLink checks it does not collide with another customer's. A very common range that is already in use elsewhere may be refused.
If a site has several VLANs and you would rather not maintain that by hand, put a small Linux box (a Raspberry Pi is plenty) or a MikroTik beside the router and use it as the gateway. Both are managed, so every VLAN is handled automatically and the existing router is left alone. See the Linux and MikroTik guides.
What you get once the tunnel is up
- Browser RDP, VNC, and SSH — open a terminal or remote desktop to any device behind the tunnel straight from the ProxyLink dashboard. No client software, no open ports on your side.
- Proxy links — share an HTTPS URL that forwards to any internal web interface (NAS, NVR cameras, PBX admin panels, router UIs) with ProxyLink login in front of it.
- No public exposure — the device keeps zero open ports and needs no static IP. The tunnel is outbound-only WireGuard to EU-hosted infrastructure. Read more about agentless remote access and NIS2 compliance.
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