Simple VPN between Surf SOHO and Surf on the Go for travel

[Oh_Yaw_Theng]

@Kandralla

Option one:
Functionally what I want is to have my home network at remote locations. IE: when I arrive at my hotel room, I plug in the router, it builds the tunnel, and when I connect to it with my laptop I get an IP address from my home DHCP server, and other than being slower my laptop thinks I’m at home (and I can do things like watch stuff recorded on my TIVO, grab stuff from my fileshare etc.)

It sounds like it can’t do that.

Option Two:
If I can’t do option one at least get some of my traffic off of (obscured from) the hotel WIFI. IE: I plug in and it routes some or all of my traffic through my home router.

It sounds like it can’t do that either.

Basically what I’m walking away with is that PepVPN is the easiest way to set up a VPN that doesn’t do any of the stuff people who don’t already know how to set up a VPN would want to do.

And I agree with Michael234, the problem likely is documentation. While you make it sound like setting PepVPN is easier it probably would have been easier if I had just gone the with the IPSEC route since, in general, that’s documented elsewhere… or at least I would likely have figured out earlier that I’m using the wrong tool here.

I think what I have right now is a way to access my home network remotely as long as the stuff on my home network is okay with talking to stuff on other subnet’s, which most of it isn’t.

Hi Kandralla,

In order to achieve your requirement, you need to establish PEPVPN between Surf SOHO and Surf on the GO, at the same time, enable Layer 2 PEPVPN bridging.

This will make networks behind Surf SOHO and Surf on the GO in the same broadcast domain.

Refer to the below sample network diagram:

Surf SOHO:

• the wan ip is 192.168.52.52
• the lan network is 192.168.60.0 / 24
• the lan interface ip address is 192.168.60.1
• enable dhcp server in Surf SOHO to server DHCP ip range
• establish PEPVPN to Surf on the GO, enable Layer 2 PEPVPN bridging too

Surf on the GO:

• the wan ip is 192.168.52.146
• the lan network is 192.168.60.0 / 24
• the lan interface ip address is 192.168.60.254
• disable the dhcp server in Surf on the GO
• establish PEPVPN to Surf SOHO, enable Layer 2 PEPVPN bridging too

When you connect a device to Surf on the GO, it will get the DHCP IP address from Surf SOHO.

In this case, the device might get the IP address 192.168.60.10/24 and the gateway of 192.168.60.1 from DHCP server at Surf SOHO.

Due to this, when the device behind Surf on the GO wants to go to internet, the internet traffic will go back to Surf SOHO and then go out to internet.

Thanks.

Regards,
Yaw Theng