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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...
My only concern with that is the incomming traffic, unless the Orbi is put into Access Point (AP) mode. To the OpenWRT router, it knows where it's own LAN is and the Orbi is one of the devices on that LAN. It might need another static route to say that traffic to the Orbi LAN goes to the Orbi WAN port. AP mode would mean there is no "Orbi LAN", only the OpenWRT LAN.
This is Waaaay over my head. Good Luck.
I'm stretching here too but fortunately have an entire team of network engineers working for me so you know I'll be hashing it out with them :-)
As I was drawing this out just now, I realized it was leading to having the Orbis in AP mode. Not happy about that.
The end goal is to share the Drobo files in one location with the other location. That and RDP to a system in NJ when in FL. Might need to look at a plan B.
Drobo? RDP into a desktop screams out "OpenVPN on the Orbi". With a laptop containing the VPN config files for both NJ and FL, the laptop can reach either LAN from anywhere.
I had wandered off into the thoughts of making daily database backups from site to site, send things to printers, streaming videos (probably not a business need).
Yes, OpenVPN would be the simple approach if it was just me but dealing with the whole family. All the other things you were mentioning are important too. perhaps not remote printing but the backups for sure. Don't want to pay for cloud when I have 15T sitting right here.
This is more about personal use than business but being an IT guy, I was opting for a more elegant solution for other end users :-)