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Site to Site VPN
Greetings fellow Orbi owners. I have two houses, both with Orbis. I would very much like to stand up a site-to-site VPN between the two. Everything I see though indicates support only for VPN c...
Rpi?
While I haven't tried it, I wonder if you could put a Raspberry Pi at the SiteB, give it a static IP (from SiteB), connect the Rpi via OpenVPN to SiteA, and then add a static route on SiteB's Orbi that any traffic going to SiteA goes through the Rpi's IP?
Granted it doesn't have to be a Rpi. I'm just thinking something that you can leave on 24x7 which doesn't waste heat and energy. Why run a 400W PC 24x7 when you can run a 35W device? If you have a spare PC lying about you could use that for the mock-up and then migrate to a Rpi for the final setup.
Also, the use case here is residential. Do not plan on this as a business solution.
Jason
Not using a PC, just existing wifi routers that can run OpenWRT so power consumption is not an issue. Absolutely residential. Would never dream of something like this in my corp environment (where we run Palo Alto FWs that do this kind of thing).
Hadn't considered the Rpi option. Only concern there would be throughput.
NevadaTech wrote:
While I haven't tried it, I wonder if you could put a Raspberry Pi at the SiteB, give it a static IP (from SiteB), connect the Rpi via OpenVPN to SiteA, and then add a static route on SiteB's Orbi that any traffic going to SiteA goes through the Rpi's IP?
This is another way to solve one direction of the project: Site B accessing Site A. What it does not solve is the other direction: Site A accessing Site B. The full solution requires OpenVPN client at each end.
Personally, I adore my Pi's. Others may find the setup process a challenge. In terms of cost, routers for OpenWRT are available on eBay for less than the cost of a Pi 3 b+ and there is no Pi learning curve.
