[SOLVED] VPN

[n166901]

I want to set up 2 networks on one ISP modem connection. One network will a VPN and the other won't. I want to run Voip on the open network. What configuration would work best?

 

[bill001g]

First you need a router that can run a vpn client. This is a somewhat common things you can find. Being able to send some traffic into the vpn and other traffic directly is not as common. I would first look at asus and tplink since they have fairly good vpn support in their routers and other that couple cheaper ones they run the same code base on all. I don't know if they have the feature to allow traffic to bypass you will have to read the manuals, they add things all the time.

I know you can do it with DD-wrt third party firmware. If you are going to consider other firmware I would recommend you look at merlin, but it only runs on asus. It is much easier to get installed than other third party firmware but has less features....mostly ones you will never use. The merlin image is very easy to setup vpn and has the ability to allow traffic to bypass the vpn.

You could of course use a dual nic pc and run one of the many free firewall images that have vpn. This is the only way if you have a very fast internet connection since vpn is very cpu intensive.