Question for network gurus

[Weelok]

Originally Posted by 8zeros

This is kind of what I was suggesting with the two router solution.
The first router on the modem running dyndns with the cameras port forwarded through it. This would be accessible from outside. This router would be running DHCP.
Another router would hook its WAN port to the first router. It would get DHCPed to the internet. Now run VPN on the second router. Use this router for everything you want tunneled. Since the dyndns was opened with the first router it will be OK for everything forwarded to and from there. Since the second router is VPNed point to point, only those points get altered, not the points in between, like the first router.
I haven't tried this but it seems like it should work the same as a tunnel opened up by a device on the network, except the device is a router.

Hah now I see what your saying!!!!! I like it!!!! This sounds like it would work and be a pretty cheap solution!!!

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Originally Posted by 8zeros

This is kind of what I was suggesting with the two router solution.
The first router on the modem running dyndns with the cameras port forwarded through it. This would be accessible from outside. This router would be running DHCP.
Another router would hook its WAN port to the first router. It would get DHCPed to the internet. Now run VPN on the second router. Use this router for everything you want tunneled. Since the dyndns was opened with the first router it will be OK for everything forwarded to and from there. Since the second router is VPNed point to point, only those points get altered, not the points in between, like the first router.
I haven't tried this but it seems like it should work the same as a tunnel opened up by a device on the network, except the device is a router.

Originally Posted by Weelok

Hah now I see what your saying!!!!! I like it!!!! This sounds like it would work and be a pretty cheap solution!!!

That seems to be the easiest, and as Weelok points out the cheapest solution. I will buy another router soon. But one more question. If I use an older Linksys router that I have for the first router, it wouldn't really matter would it? Because if I understand you right the first one would only do the routing and handle the port forwards for the cameras. The second router would be the actual workhorse for the network as far as the wireless and ethernet connected computers, right?