IPSEC Between Homes

[oxford123]

Hi, looking to build a site to site VPN between house in Uk and House in France (to allow France house to view UK TV Catchup etc.. without paying for Nord or equivalent)

both the UK and France routers support site to site VPN's, is simply just a case of building tunnel and routing all France traffic down tunnel to breakout via UK ISP? do i need a proxy installed somewhere? is there a better way? (point is to avoid paying for Nord etc if have capability already)

 

[ChrisD.]

If it's simply a case of wanting to watch UK based services from France, you don't need an IPSEC tunnel. Simply install Wireguard on a Raspberry Pi or similar in the UK, then once you install profiles on any devices they can connect to it. It might be a case that the router itself can host a VPN server but it might be OpenVPN (which is still decent but a little more difficult to set up).

 

[visibleman]

Hi, looking to build a site to site VPN between house in Uk and House in France (to allow France house to view UK TV Catchup etc.. without paying for Nord or equivalent)

both the UK and France routers support site to site VPN's, is simply just a case of building tunnel and routing all France traffic down tunnel to breakout via UK ISP? do i need a proxy installed somewhere? is there a better way? (point is to avoid paying for Nord etc if have capability already)

What router(s)/hardware are you using?

There are plenty of ways of accomplishing this but what you're suggesting is fine - UK router acts as host and the French router creates the site-to-site tunnel and routes traffic across it. The only thing to note is that you would typically be routing all of the French networks' traffic across the tunnel unless the hardware allows you to split traffic, so XYZ subnet/devices uses the tunnel with everything else going to your ISP. Otherwise you just do it per-device basis.

 

[Avalon]

It’s reasonably straight forward to do, but before you go any further, consider that Nord is regularly free via TCB/Quidco and this is one of those situations that screams fire stick + Nord app. Also consider that you will likely be limited to the UK uplink speed to get data back to France, this may or may not be adequate for your needs (you don’t give us any connection details).

 

[ChrisD.]

It’s reasonably straight forward to do, but before you go any further, consider that Nord is regularly free via TCB/Quidco and this is one of those situations that screams fire stick + Nord app. Also consider that you will likely be limited to the UK uplink speed to get data back to France, this may or may not be adequate for your needs (you don’t give us any connection details).

Agreed here, I don’t see a requirement for IPSEC, only a per device VPN connecting to the UK.

 

[Caged]

If I was in this position I'd make tunnels between the two locations and present them on data ports or SSIDs at each end. Then your traffic never gets classified as coming from a VPN service, and it works where VPN clients might not be available for the platform you're using.

Advantage then is you can also remotely access anything stored at either location - whether that is pulling files off a satellite STB in a different country, accessing a media library that is stored at your home etc.