![]() ![]() The good thing about a “VPN gateway” is the network clients that use the VPN gateway client connection to communicate with subnets on the Access Server side do not need licensing. However, in my case I don’t need more than two clients. Keep in mind you don’t have to use an OpenVPN Access Server as again this is a commercial product. In my lab, I have deployed an OpenVPN Access Server. Tweaks needed on the VPN Gateway to forward traffic.Install and configure an OpenVPN Gateway client.The steps to connect two OpenVPN servers include the following: However, as I found with playing around in the home lab, you can instead use an OpenVPN Access Server and then connect an OpenVPN client from a site using the OpenVPN client in “VPN gateway” mode. It is important to understand with the OpenVPN Access Server, there isn’t really an easy, intuitive way to create a “site-to-site” VPN between Access Server and another OpenVPN Server. Connect Two OpenVPN Servers with site-to-site connection However, you do get (2) free connections with OpenVPN Access Server without the need to license anything.įor the OpenVPN site-to-site, I am configuring in this walkthrough, I am using OpenVPN Access Server deployed in Azure and then creating a site-to-site VPN connection to an OpenVPN client loaded in Ubuntu Server spun up in the home lab. OpenVPN Access Server is a commercially available product that makes implementing OpenVPN extremely easy in GUI form. You can find it in the app repos of major Linux distros like Ubuntu. ![]() OpenVPN itself is open source and is freely available to download and use. OpenVPN Gateway Access ServerĪ bit of clarity on OpenVPN. In this post, I want to show you guys how to connect two OpenVPN Servers with site-to-site connection. Do you have the need to connect multiple sites together with freely available software without using proprietary network appliances? OpenVPN provides a great solution that is freely available to those needing a simple and fairly easy (relatively speaking) solution to access a network remotely. ![]()
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