Hello everybody,
an office of a customer of mine currently runs well over Balance 30, but has decided to move the production servers to a farm, task for which I have borrowed a Balance 20 to first try the config.
Essentially the idea is perfectly bridging the two local historical networks:
192.168.1/24 (notag)
192.168.70/24 (vlan70)
which run under a L3 switch whose uplink is a Balance 30 on 192.168.255/24 (notag) network, thanks to static routes, with the same topology networks under the Balance 20. Here follows a graphical explanation.
192.168.1/24 (notag)
192.168.70/24 (vlan70)
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SWITCH L3 (192.168.255.1/24 + 192.168.1.254/24 + 192.168.70.254/24)
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Balance 30 (192.168.255.2/24 + WAN addr)
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Fiber Modem
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THE INTERNET
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Balance 20 (WAN addr + 192.168.1.253/24 + 192.168.70.253/24)
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L2 SWITCH
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192.168.1/24 (notag)
192.168.70/24 (vlan70)
In order to try this I first configured a normal PepVPN between the two Balance devices, but it reported a “route conflict” (a sign that local static routes on Balance 30 are working well).
When I instead tried (both with and without STP) to establish a direct L2 PepVPN using the main LAN network of each Balance device like in this example How to Configure Layer 2 SpeedFusion VPN , the connection could not be established, always reporting a “Starting…” status.
Does anybody have valuable clues to get me out of this dead end? The presence of a “bridge” functionality should allow for the same network to exist on both sides (e.g. 192.168.1/24) or am I assuming something wrong?
Also: does PepVPN just need UDP 4500 port to operate or more?
Thanks in advance,
Pasha