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Spinubai
Apr 23, 2016Aspirant
Which firewall for static routing?
Hi, in our office we have two separated LANs: - one VPN LAN, managed by a Cisco router which purpose is to connect us to our company VPN. No internet connection possible. IP Range: 10.12.65.0/24 ...
- May 02, 2016
Hi Spinubai,
I have inquired your concern to a higher tier support. Any of our current VPN firewalls mentioned in this data sheet supports static routing and can accomplish your goal. I also believe that your current router(s) can fit in to your requirements as well. However, for VPN to work, you will need add routes on the remote side. But from what you have mentioned, you have no control of the corporate VPN. This will not work, regardless of what device you have, for as long as you have no control over the remote side, in order to add the route on that end.
A simpler option is to add a secondary address, as long as they are on the same LAN for example, and then be connected to both. You would want to increase the metric for the secondary address so that the internet traffic does not flow out the VPN, but then they could use both resources together. Here is a simple guide to do so:
How to add a secondary IP address to a computer
Regards,
DaneA
NETGEAR Community Team
Spinubai
Apr 26, 2016Aspirant
Yes, we have two different ISPs. I saw the VPN firewalls you linked, but I cannot replace the Cisco Router, which is managed by our Company headquarters, with another device. I strictly need something to route to Cisco or to ADSL router depending on which is the destination IP range. Which is the most suitable router?
DaneA
May 02, 2016NETGEAR Employee Retired
Hi Spinubai,
I have inquired your concern to a higher tier support. Any of our current VPN firewalls mentioned in this data sheet supports static routing and can accomplish your goal. I also believe that your current router(s) can fit in to your requirements as well. However, for VPN to work, you will need add routes on the remote side. But from what you have mentioned, you have no control of the corporate VPN. This will not work, regardless of what device you have, for as long as you have no control over the remote side, in order to add the route on that end.
A simpler option is to add a secondary address, as long as they are on the same LAN for example, and then be connected to both. You would want to increase the metric for the secondary address so that the internet traffic does not flow out the VPN, but then they could use both resources together. Here is a simple guide to do so:
How to add a secondary IP address to a computer
Regards,
DaneA
NETGEAR Community Team
- SpinubaiMay 03, 2016Aspirant
Thanks for your kind advice, now I have all I need to make a decision!
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