VPNserver

Introduction

The only host on the VPNNet is Vanilla it has an IP Address of VPNnet.5. OpenVPN was tried but it had problems with routing so Wireguard has been tried and it now works. It is possible that the routing problems were the same as was on wireguard and maybe they could have been overcome but as there is now a working Wireguard solution on Vanilla there is only a limited reason to try OpenVPN again.

The Solution required

The general idea of the VPN was to allow RDP access to the desktop hosts on the terminals network from a remote location . There may be some gain in having a Samba share to Satsuma as well as the VPN will secure the connection. There does not need to be a Internet connection through the VPN at this time so we will not add the Ip as the default route for Internet at this time, If that changes it should be fairly straight forward to add it on to the client connection. There may be other requirements at a later date.

Installation of Wireguard

To install Wireguard on Vanilla do

sudo apt update
sudo apt install wireguard wireguard-tools -y

wireguard-tools is a package containing additional utilities for managing WireGuard, such as wg and wg-quick. more dtails can be found here