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Site to Site VPN to Azure with Nighthawk RAX42
Hi, I'd like to create a site to site VPN tunnel to Microsoft Azure but I'm not sure how to do this, there doesn't seem to be an obvious way to create an IPSec tunnel. Is this router capable of doing this?
Thanks!
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Hi, I know how to configure Azure, but the Nighthawk has to be configured as the other end of the tunnel and I don't see anywhere to configure IPSec, I don't know if my model supports this.
I believe NG reserves that feature for there business class routers:
For the consumer level routers, it is not a feature available, though if you have a router that can run OpenWRT (even if it is an older one that you have laying around ), you can use it to set up a site to site ipsec connection.
https://openwrt.org/toh/start
Here is an example of that process, sadly it is not very user friendly to connect the ipsec VPN server, hopefully someone will make a good GUI frontend for it in the future).
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/vpn/strongswan/basics
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/vpn/strongswan/site2siteOther than that, you are stuck going with more business focused routers.
