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Can SOHO routers terminate VPN tunnels? Not passthru.

VirtualLarry

VirtualLarry

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I know that some routers advertise VPN passthrough, but what I was wondering is, is it possible to have the router terminate VPN tunnels?

In other words, is it possible to set up a VPN between several remote locations and another location, over the internet, using just a SOHO router?

Or is this even advisable, if possible?

I was thinking of setting up a WHS, and setting it up for remote access over the internet. I was thinking, perhaps I could allow my friends, in remote locations over the internet, to access my WHS, using VPN. Is this required (VPN) in order to use the network backup feature of WHS, or can the WHS connector software that is loaded on the client, can that backup to a WHS remotely over the internet?
 
Some Tomato firmware builds can also do this using OpenVPN. I'm using the SgtPepperKSU build at home, works great & reliable as hell.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato_(firmware)#Feature_comparison

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Good luck!
 
VirtualLarry said:
I know that some routers advertise VPN passthrough, but what I was wondering is, is it possible to have the router terminate VPN tunnels?

In other words, is it possible to set up a VPN between several remote locations and another location, over the internet, using just a SOHO router?

Or is this even advisable, if possible?

I was thinking of setting up a WHS, and setting it up for remote access over the internet. I was thinking, perhaps I could allow my friends, in remote locations over the internet, to access my WHS, using VPN. Is this required (VPN) in order to use the network backup feature of WHS, or can the WHS connector software that is loaded on the client, can that backup to a WHS remotely over the internet?
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I can't comment much on the other things, but utilizing Hamachi VPN I was able to back up my laptop all summer in Indiana with the server running at home in lower Georgia. Realize, however, you need *very* good bandwidth between the locations as WHS backup is more than just uploading the newest files. The file change checking can take alot of bandwidth and can take a long time on a slow connection. In Indiana I was on a 15/5 connection, and the WHS server at home was on a 1.5/.5 connection. The uploading from the WHS server was the worst, taking the management console near 1 minute to come up, though at that point it was fairly quick and usable.

But yes what I'm trying to say is it is possible to have a system act like it is on a LAN with a WHS server through a VPN system. I highly recommend you set up your WHS server to only do backups at night though when you can afford to leave the system stationary and afford the bandwidth 😉.
 
heymrdj - fragmentation can really take a toll on VPNs for performance especially if there is much latency. Change your MTU to 1400 on both ends and that should help.
 
If it's not called a "VPN Router" by the manufacturer, then it probably can't terminate a VPN connection without different firmware.

One other thing to pay attention to is that "VPN Passthrough" doesn't mean much. "VPN Passthrough" can mean that it won't interfere with a VPN CLIENT connecting to a VPN server elsewhere. Or it can mean that it'll work properly on the server-end of a VPN.
 
As long as you're not doing Site to Site(permanent) VPN you should just be able to setup WHS as a remote access VPN concentrator and have them connect that way, the router shouldn't matter at all. Unless that's not a feature they decided to include in WHS, I didn't bother to look it up.
 
Pantlegz1 said:
As long as you're not doing Site to Site(permanent) VPN you should just be able to setup WHS as a remote access VPN concentrator and have them connect that way, the router shouldn't matter at all. Unless that's not a feature they decided to include in WHS, I didn't bother to look it up.
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WHS can act as a VPN server, but, historically, support of home-grade routers for pass-through of GRE (Protocol 47) used for PPTP VPNs has been sketchy.
 
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