Joining 2 networks together

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Plidian

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Apr 4, 2012, 8:00:50 PM4/4/12
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Has anyone done any work on using this appliance to bring 2 networks
into 1 over the internet?
I have a home network with a handful of devices behind an at&t uverse
2wire router. I'd like to be able to access my servers located at the
office from home.
At the office I have a static IP that's currently hosted on an ASUS RT-
N56U which is just a really good wireless router, behind the router at
the office is a VM host and a number of VM Servers.
I've set up the network at home to be 192.168.1.* and the work network
to be 192.168.2.* while host files and static port forwarding would
all need to be reconfigured if these had to change (say to put them
all in the same class C) it's not beyond the realm of possibility.
the idea being I could access my servers via a VPN tunnel and the
internet via the local internet access.
Just curious if anyone has tried this or has any thoughts on if it
would work.

Bob Andrews

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Apr 4, 2012, 9:17:35 PM4/4/12
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I access my servers at home from work through the appliance.  Don't see
why it wouldn't work the other way around.  In my case, the home has static
IP, so my issues were all the same as yours.

However, from carefully parsing what you wrote, it sounds like what you
really want is a routed VPN tunnel, not a bridged one, which is what the
appliance is currently giving you.

Bob

Plidian

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Apr 5, 2012, 3:42:39 PM4/5/12
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Thank you for your reply.
It may be that what I want is in conflict with what I need. I can't
put a different gateway in place at home because I'd lose my TV and
probably my phone.
My thought was to put the appliance behind the router and port forward
a VPN port, which would work great (I think) with this appliance and
with a client application on any given PC, then I'd assume my internet
connection comes over the VPN tunnel.
But it might be configurable either on the server or the client, don't
know.
I guess there's not a huge disadvantage to doing it that way, I'll
just have to establish a connection when I need it rather than it
always being there, but if I understand routed VPN tunnel,(and I
freely admit I very well might not) I'd have to make the appliance the
router for my network making it the gateway for the hosts on my
network and assigning a 2nd interface the internet IP.
There's not really a question here other than, "DO I sound like I've
understood you correctly"?
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