I am working on a project with equipment in 2 different cities. Nothing pressing and performance isn’t a requirement. Anyway in location 1 I have an entire network of servers, switches, access points, pcs, etc. This network has a UniFi dream machine as a router. In location 2 I have simply a PC currently which connects to WiFi and then to location 1 via teleport vpn. Now I have some wired network devices in location 2 that I would like to get to be able to access location 1 but they are “dumb” devices so I am looking for a way for them to tunnel through the connection on the PC? It has Ethernet currently not being used. Is there an easy way I can hang a switch on the PCs Ethernet and plug my devices into the same switch and somehow have all traffic enter and leave the PCs WiFi connection via VPN?
If the PC is running on Windows you might get Internet Connection Sharing running for your “dumb” devices.
somehow have all traffic enter and leave the PCs WiFi connection via VPN?
The VPN portion is the challenging portion, because it depends on how the Teleport VPN adapter is configured and what protocols it allows.
Without the VPN in the equation, Windows ICS easily supports connectivity between the ethernet and wifi. You can also just bridge the two connection.
However, with the Teleport VPN connection in the mix you might have to mess with static routing on the PC.
Zerotier can do this, configure the PC as a bridge device.
For what you’re up to: a UniFi VPN? Not sure. I’d look to make a VPN with a route to a /24, then have the PC at the second site act as a router. Windows can make a perfectly functional router with the right configuration.
You might be able to achieve this with tailscale.
Op already has a VPN. Tailscale is not the answer.
You can use tailscale running on a raspberry pi as a subnet router.
This should allow the “dumb” devices to reach the main network.
Or op could make use of their existing working VPN connection and ICS and not need to faff with another service that doesn’t solve the problem.
Op wants to do it without additional kit.
Tailscale is not the answer to everything, especially in a business environment.