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    Site-to-Site IPSec w/one side behind NAT?

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      TheWaterbug last edited by

      I already have several sites up and running like Remote Worker 1, where I have a pfsense box at the edge of the remote network establishing an IPSec tunnel back to the main office:

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      Can I put a pfsense box (SG-1100) inside Remote Worker 2's house, behind his generic ISP router, and establish a tunnel for that one PC?

      • Do I connect the WAN port on the SG-1100 to the remote LAN?

      • Do I use the ISP router's address as the default Gateway?

      • Do I need to port-forward anything in the ISP router if the SG-1100 can initiate the tunnel?

      • Is it a problem if the default LAN in Remote2 is either 192.168.0.0 or 192.168.1.0, e.g. conflicting with any of the other connected LANs?

      Setting up a software IKEv2 client in Windows 10 at Remote 2 has not been successful, and I've wasted enough hours to want to try something else, and I have the unused SG-1100 lying around anyway.

      I do not understand WireGuard or OpenVPN well enough to want to learn something new right now, but I have set up several IPSec tunnels successfully, so I have a preference to try this if it will work.

      Thanks!

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        maverickws @TheWaterbug last edited by

        @thewaterbug I have IPSec Site-to-Site where ONE of the sides is behind NAT. No problem at all.
        Just initiate the connection from the side behind NAT. Nothing extraordinary to configure.

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