Strategy for site to site VPN, when one site is a cloud provider without a pre-built pfsense image?

Norsak 0

Hi,

Help me out if I am missing something obvious.
pfSense (like most of it's peers) is a disc image, not a linux package.

This works fine if I control the hardware (physical locations), but when most locations are cloud based... what is the plan?

Yes, BIG cloud providers will have a pfSense image that you can pay extra for.
But smaller regional one's often do not.

What is the strategy for site-to-site VPN when you 'only' have a linux box at the remote site?

JKnott

@norsak-0

First off, it's FreeBSD based, not Linux. What about running as a virtual machine?

Thondwe

@norsak-0 I've got an Azure Sub (MSDN Benefit) and Site-to-site runs fine with IPSEC from local pfsense to the Azure Gateway...

stephenw10

@norsak-0 said in Strategy for site to site VPN, when one site is a cloud provider without a pre-built pfsense image?:

What is the strategy for site-to-site VPN when you 'only' have a linux box at the remote site?

If you really only have a Linux box at one end then you could only run pfSense virtualised there as has been said.
But you can run whatever VPN client/server you need there and connect to it with pfSense. Any of the supported VPN types would work.

Steve