I'm having a problem running a TiVo for my mother-in-law. To save some money
she changed her ISP to AT&T. The issue is that AT&T is running some sort of
transparent web cache proxy at the base of their network and the TiVo will not
load it's daily guide data through the cache. AT&T also charges for this kind
of Tech support so getting the caching issue fixed is not an option.
I'm running my firewall on OpenBSD and my in-laws have a similar firewall
setup. I have already setup an IPSEC VPN between their house and mine. The
setup looks like this:
Tivo ----> [ In laws fw ] ---> ( Internet ) <--- [ my fw ] --- my net
The firewall setup is for partially for my convenience. I want to seamlessly
get to my servers when I'm over there for a bit of time. Their default gateway
sends them to the internet through their AT&T connection but can also get to
things on my network. If the tunnel goes down the internet works fine but they
cannot see things in my house.
What I would like to do is arrange for their TiVo to pass all of it's traffic
through the tunnel and out through my firewall since my ISP is a bit easier to
deal with.
-- Chris
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