amckenna1@wi.rr.com
I believe I need a vpn tunnel. I have an office in my basement and want my partner to be able to access a few things.
1) The printer (this is the only way we can print 11X17 plans)
2) The hard drive with all the plans and business things on it. It is a WD Cloud drive
3) I want to give him a voip extension at his place. I would like to give him an IP Phone Just plug it into the router and go
I am trying to teach myself how to do this but there are so many different ways to do this from what I can see.
I currently have a Netgear Nighthawk AC3200 as my main router/firewall.
From what I can see I can install OPENVPN on the router. Is this my best option?
I have a Cisco asa 5505 also that is not hooked up but from what I can tell I would need 2 of them and that might be more overkill than I need?
What about a couple of WRT54G routers??? I can install DDWRT on them and OPENVPN and have one at my house and one at my partners house?
Do I need a VPN tunnel??? Could I just be the VPN server and have him be a client? Would the VOIP phone on his end always be connected if it wasn't a VPN Tunnel????
I just need to be pointed in the right direction. I have a bad habit of making things more difficult than they need to be and I am trying to not do that this time 😃
Thanks for your time!!!!!!!
Andy
Jlennemann
If you have someone at a distant location that requires access to resources located on your network, a VPN is the best route. You can use your Cisco ASA 5505 as the server and use Cisco AnyConnect on his machine. Also, you can configure your ASA for username and password authentication and point a DD-WRT router to the ASA. You'll need to configure the DD-WRT router as an OpenVPN client. After reading your post I see that you also want to include VoIP traffic. The best solution for this would be to configure a site-to-site VPN either using a OpenVPN server or your Cisco ASA 5505. Just note that 5505 ASAs are EoL.
TinCanTech
Cisco and Openvpn ??? to my knowledge Cisco do not support openvpn.
Jlennemann
Looks like you're correct. In this case the submitter will need to use two ASAs. Good catch!
TinCanTech
@ amckenner .. I would use openvpn on your computers not your routers until you are familiar with it.
Jlennemann
@ amckenner - you can do what TinCanTech suggested however, you'll need to find a separate solution for your VoIP unless you're running a softphone on the users machine. Are you running a Cisco CUCM with Cisco VoIP phones?
