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Fritzbox actually has some very nice GUI steps for configuring a VPN connection, intended for Fritzbox to Fritzbox connections but any compatible VPN will do. It also allows setting up static IPv4/IPv6 routes (Home Network>Network>Network Settings>Additional settings>IPv4 routes/IPv6 routes).

The biggest problem you'd probably run into is figuring out what kind of IPsec encryption configuration the router expects from the other side (Wireguard should be a lot easier but then you may run into hardware acceleration issues).

If you need to get down to it, you can also make a backup of the Fritzbox config file, edit the dump to manually configure the VPN endpoint, recalculate the checksum (there are tools for that), and re-import the config file. AVM has loads of config not accessible to the user that you can tweak that way, but they make it a bit hard to access so you don't accidentally brick your router.



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