joeschmuck
New Around Here
So I've been very confused in the way of VPN configuration as I have been reading these forums for a few days and pulling out the few hairs I have left. Round an around the conversations go. So I've determined that I'd just ask the questions and hope for simple answers. Yes and No are acceptable.
What I have:
I own an RT-AX86U router, standard ASUS firmware (version 3.0.0.3.386_46061). I have much better WiFi with this than my older Asus Router RT-AC68W.
I do not have a paid VPN service yet.
My router presently provides DHCP for addresses 192.168.0.100 to 199. I manually have some servers and stuff configured with static IPs.
My WAN IP changes every day, not a big deal to me as I do not access my network remotely.
I do have an older Asus RT-AC68W not presently in use.
I have 42 Clients, 30 of those are WiFi.
I use Norton Security currently for VPN protection but unfortunately I cannot just add a new NIC to my computer and share a protected subnet. I'm definitely not a networking guru. When I ran a BBS back in the old days before the internet, stuff was simple, but not today. Today I'm going to try to setup a Virtual Machine on ESXi of Win 11 with Norton Security and see if I can share a Virtual Ethernet port bridged to the VPN port. I have no idea if I can make it work but if I can, that may be a solution.
What I want to do:
I would like to establish a VPN connection for statically assigned IP's in the 192.168.1.x subnet. My original 192.168.0.x will remain off the VPN connection and fully operational. To be honest, I only want a hand full of statically assigned IP's to pass through the VPN, I could leave them on the same 192.168.0.x subnet, they will not be within the DHCP range.
My thoughts were to make a single router do all this work of tunneling and passing through the correct subnet, but I am willing to disable the radio in the RT-AC68W router and make it a VPN router for the 192.168.1.x subnet and connect it to my RT-AX86U. It's not ideal but it would get the job done.
My questions:
1) Can my RT-AX86U using the factory firmware allow such tunneling as I desire?
2) If the RT-AX86U cannot do this using factory firmware, which firmware if any would support this? I suspect something called Merlin but I'd love to stay with the firmware I'm using if reasonable.
3) Last Question: Keeping it very simple, a recommendation of the path forward assuming my hardware will support the goal I have. I do not want to get into really long complicated dialog until I understand what I need to do. I'm very willing to do the legwork, that is the only way someone learns.
Thank you for any help.
What I have:
I own an RT-AX86U router, standard ASUS firmware (version 3.0.0.3.386_46061). I have much better WiFi with this than my older Asus Router RT-AC68W.
I do not have a paid VPN service yet.
My router presently provides DHCP for addresses 192.168.0.100 to 199. I manually have some servers and stuff configured with static IPs.
My WAN IP changes every day, not a big deal to me as I do not access my network remotely.
I do have an older Asus RT-AC68W not presently in use.
I have 42 Clients, 30 of those are WiFi.
I use Norton Security currently for VPN protection but unfortunately I cannot just add a new NIC to my computer and share a protected subnet. I'm definitely not a networking guru. When I ran a BBS back in the old days before the internet, stuff was simple, but not today. Today I'm going to try to setup a Virtual Machine on ESXi of Win 11 with Norton Security and see if I can share a Virtual Ethernet port bridged to the VPN port. I have no idea if I can make it work but if I can, that may be a solution.
What I want to do:
I would like to establish a VPN connection for statically assigned IP's in the 192.168.1.x subnet. My original 192.168.0.x will remain off the VPN connection and fully operational. To be honest, I only want a hand full of statically assigned IP's to pass through the VPN, I could leave them on the same 192.168.0.x subnet, they will not be within the DHCP range.
My thoughts were to make a single router do all this work of tunneling and passing through the correct subnet, but I am willing to disable the radio in the RT-AC68W router and make it a VPN router for the 192.168.1.x subnet and connect it to my RT-AX86U. It's not ideal but it would get the job done.
My questions:
1) Can my RT-AX86U using the factory firmware allow such tunneling as I desire?
2) If the RT-AX86U cannot do this using factory firmware, which firmware if any would support this? I suspect something called Merlin but I'd love to stay with the firmware I'm using if reasonable.
3) Last Question: Keeping it very simple, a recommendation of the path forward assuming my hardware will support the goal I have. I do not want to get into really long complicated dialog until I understand what I need to do. I'm very willing to do the legwork, that is the only way someone learns.
Thank you for any help.