Use opnsense to have home network on a VPN?

VPN
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Can I use my opnsense to funnel all my home network traffic through a VPN? I don’t want to put a vpn client on all my devices if I can avoid it.

It would be great to not have to pay for a VPN service some how but I’m sure I have ti route traffic through a different server (or gateway? Not sure of the proper term here) which is likely not free.

I’m guessing I would use the IPSec feature but as you may have guessed I am a novice and just trying to understand the capabilities of this device.

Thanks for any help you can offer!

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The short answer is yes. The slightly longer answer is still yes, but you have to understand that VPN is the heaviest load you can heap on a router, with the possible exception for real-time malware detection. So to use VPN on a fast Internet connection without slowing it to a crawl, you need a beefy router.

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Yes, you can WireGuard MullvadVPN Road Warrior Setup — OPNsense documentation

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I setup OpenVPN easily. I did have to install a client though. I hear it can be done with IPsec regardless but that’s beyond my pay grade.

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And a beefy VPN exit node.