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afairlie
Jul 26, 2019Aspirant
Connecting a ReadyNAS iSCSI to a remote server
Hello, I'm trying to connect to my ReadyNAS from my server at work via iSCSI. The server discovers the target but when I try to connect it hangs for about two minutes and finally errors "Connecti...
- Jul 29, 2019
I did a quick test with a RN214 and, just for the record, it does return the IP address assigned to its LAN interface in response to a 'SendTargets' from the initiator. So in the case of your home router, the DMZ setup on it (at least per the quick glance I took at the manual for it) still peforms NAT (as StephenB explained) as the IP address assigned to the devices on the DMZ are still private IP addresses. In order for this to work over the Internet without a VPN or other tunnel you'd need to have the ReadyNas on the same segment as the 'Internet' interface with an IP address in the same subnet as the Internet interface of your home router. Also, as StephenB mentioned, I'd not do that with anything I even remotely considered valuable.
I think you'll have success with the VPN connection method and your use-case for this sounds feasible (small files/infrequent use) given the bandwidth you have provided your Internet connections aren't being heavily used otherwise.
Good luck with it!
radu7
Jul 29, 2019Aspirant
I did a quick test with a RN214 and, just for the record, it does return the IP address assigned to its LAN interface in response to a 'SendTargets' from the initiator. So in the case of your home router, the DMZ setup on it (at least per the quick glance I took at the manual for it) still peforms NAT (as StephenB explained) as the IP address assigned to the devices on the DMZ are still private IP addresses. In order for this to work over the Internet without a VPN or other tunnel you'd need to have the ReadyNas on the same segment as the 'Internet' interface with an IP address in the same subnet as the Internet interface of your home router. Also, as StephenB mentioned, I'd not do that with anything I even remotely considered valuable.
I think you'll have success with the VPN connection method and your use-case for this sounds feasible (small files/infrequent use) given the bandwidth you have provided your Internet connections aren't being heavily used otherwise.
Good luck with it!
afairlie
Jul 29, 2019Aspirant
Thanks for the information.
As an update I ended up building an L2TP VPN, seems like everything is working this way so far. When I get this router replaced I'll probably configure a site-to-site VPN instead with the new firewall. I'm going to mark this as resolved for now.
- radu7Jul 29, 2019Aspirant
Thanks for the update! Glad you hear you were successful in getting that accomplised.
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