Netgear R7000 VPN

[AndyFlysTrikes]

People

My kids are moving away from home and I want to connect their new house and our old house together from a networking perspective. We both use the same ISP, and they allocate a fixed IP Address. We both have Netgear R7000 Routers.

From my reading it seems that the VPN Supported is individual client to R7000. Can I configure the routers so that house A is 192.168.0.1 with 255.255.255.0 subnet mask and House B is 192.168.1.1 with the same subnet mask and the routers establish a VPN between the 2 so that both networks can see each other at LAN level and use their own respective gateway for internet access for other than 192.168 traffic....

This so that my 2012 essentials server that backs up all the clients can continue to do so, as the main but not only reason....and yes I'm aware that I can do that on each client with the 2012 essentials provided VPN but again its 1 client to 1 server....

Andy

 

[NETGEAR Guy]

The R7000 doesn't support IPSec VPN end-point (box to box) capability. Only NETGEAR business router models such as listed at http://www.netgear.com/business/products/security/vpn-firewalls.aspx#tab-models have this capability.

An alternative solution (but not as sophisticated) is to configure the Windows Server as PPTP VPN Server and allow remote clients to connect via Windows PPTP client.
For this capability, the R7000 in front of the Windows Server will need to be configured for port forwarding, ie., open TCP Port 1723 (PPTP) on the R7000 pointing to the Windows 2012 Server IP address...