Hi all,
I’ve just been given the green-light to start on the process of replacing our existing DrayTek router as split tunneling is something it doesn’t seem to be able to handle, at least not easily.
With us all working remotely now, the dial-in VPN on the DrayTek is struggling to hold up because it’s tunneling everything, and no matter how hard I try to gently prompt my colleagues about using streaming services over the VPN they often forget.
My plan will be to do a split tunnel with DNS resolution (for internal resources) over the tunnel and routes set to our internal network, as well as the network on the other side of the site-to-site VPN with our hosting provider, everything outside of those IP ranges will go down the non VPN connections.
Partly based on Tom’s videos, we’ll be going for a SG-3100 as our actual deployment, with a new VDSL modem to go with it. Before we purchase, I’ve been asked to grab one of our spare Dell workstations (it’ll be pretty decent, probably a core i7 and 16gb ram) and do some testing of my own to make sure I’m comfortable with the configuration.
The workstation I’ll be grabbing, or rather my boss is grabbing and dropping off as I don’t drive, will only have a single NIC. I’ll need at least another port as I plan to use this as my own home router to really test this out.
We’re already investing a fair of money into the SG-3100, as well as all the over remote-working expenses, so I’m keen to not spend a fortune on another NIC. Ideally, I just need something that will work and is inexpensive. What would people think to maybe two of these TP-Link cards?
Hope that all makes sense, appreciate any suggestions - we’re in the UK so obviously under quite strict lockdown. Myself and my colleagues are, in case anyone is wondering, essential workers as we’re providing healthcare systems to the NHS.