Hosting a Gateway

This page documents the steps to set up your own gateway. Digitalocean's $5 VPS provides great value for this purpose.

Installation

• Install packages `sudo apt install openvpn golang make`
• Install yggdrasil and enable the service
• Ensure peers are added to yggdrasil's config
• Set yggdrasil's interface name to ygg0 in the config
• Clone autoygg and checkout the desired version tag
• `cd autoygg && make`
• Copy autoygg-server to /bin/ and autoygg-server.service to /usr/lib/systemd/system/
• `sudo systemctl daemon-reload`
• Create /etc/autoygg/server/yml

---
ListenHost: "your-gateways-ygg-ip-from-yggdrasilctl-getSelf"
ListenPort: "8080"
GatewayOwner: "Your Name <you@provider.com>"
GatewayDescription: "Describe this gateway"
GatewayNetwork: "Mullvad VPN"
GatewayLocation: "New York, US"
RequireRegistration: true
AccessListEnabled: false
GatewayTunnelIP: "10.42.0.1"
GatewayTunnelNetmask: "16"
GatewayTunnelIPRangeMin: 10.42.0.10
GatewayTunnelIPRangeMax: 10.42.0.255
MaxClients: 100
YggdrasilInterface: ygg0
GatewayInfoURL: ""

• Enable / start the autoygg-server service
• Edit your .ovpn config, remove up/down:

dev vpn0
dev-type tun
route-nopull

• Place .ovpn, userpass.txt (if applicable), and any certs in /etc/openvpn/
• Reboot
• sudo ip rule add from 10.42.0.0/16 table 42
• ip ro add default dev vpn0 table 42
• Connect via autoygg client