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Sounds like you are looking for a travel router. GLinet makes some good ones. I have one of these: https://a.co/d/gbWTmjS I use it to connect to hotel WiFi then provide its own WiFi (or Ethernet) connection to my devices. It can connect to vpn to route the traffic like you mention.

Edit: I should also mention that it’s very doable to DIY this using OpenWRT, and some compatible SBC that has WiFi and Ethernet.

You don’t want something crazy underpowered like VoCore for this.

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Hmm... that's a reasonably priced prepackaged solution. Thanks for pointing that out.

I am tempted to still use VoCore since it appears to run OpenWRT out of the box and I'm really only aiming to support a single device. Hmm..

Many of the gl.inet routers can run vanilla OpenWRT out of the box—the linked router above (Beryl) included[1]. Be mindful that not every one of their routers can as some run unsupported chipsets that require a custom build, but many do. Can always check for support on the OpenWRT page for gl.inet routers[2].

Just here to second the recommendation. I'm in no way affiliated, I've just happily used several generations of their routers for this exact purpose.

EDIT: Wanted to point out that their newest and most powerful travel router with (upcoming—in the latest v23 release candidate[3]) support from mainline OpenWRT is the Beryl AX (GL-MT3000)[4].

[1]: https://openwrt.org/toh/gl.inet/gl-mt1300_v1

[2]: https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/gl.inet/start

[3]: https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/?version=23.05.0-rc3&t...

[4]: https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-mt3000/

Your challenge will be throughput, without hardware acceleration every packet needs to be handled by the CPU and you're going to pretty quickly bump up against throughput limits. Travel routers will generally offer hardware acceleration and have everything ready to go in one package, so great news - the thing you're looking for exists today!

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