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VPN server on router or within home network?
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If you use the ISP one, you'll rapidly find you can't configure it to do what you want. Run your own, lock it down, and keep it up to date.
Depends on the ISP, my old one just handed out Fritz box routers with nothing locked down. Still using it now with the new ISP!
Seems like rule #1 ๐