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Aspirant

Feb 01, 2022

Connecting two FVS318v2 VPN Servers each running under a gateway routers - VPN tunnel between them

I am trying to create a VPN connection between two FVS318v2 routers both running firmware V2.4 (July. 19 2004). Each FVS318 router is connected under the main gateway router that connects to the Int...

DaneA

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Feb 03, 2022

wispman,

You will need to consider having the 2 FVS18v2 be configured as the main router then afterwards configure a box-to-box VPN tunnel between the 2 FVS318v2.

Regards,

DaneA

NETGEAR Community Team

wispman
Aspirant
Feb 07, 2022
I am informed that my router behind router VPN will not work. I have read elsewhere the port forwarding IPsec port 500 and L2TP port 1701 to the VPN routers may allow it to work. Yes, No?
- DaneA
  NETGEAR Employee Retired
  Feb 09, 2022
  wispman,
  
  I have read elsewhere the port forwarding IPsec port 500 and L2TP port 1701 to the VPN routers may allow it to work. Yes, No?
  
  It may or may not help. However, there is no harm in trying to configure it.
  
  Regards,
  
  DaneA
  
  NETGEAR Community Team