Thanks for that, much appreciated

On 8 November 2016 at 00:04, Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca <[email protected]>
wrote:

> James, OpenVPN using tap will do. However, layer 2 over VPN is normally
> not very efficient. If ESXi shares the same infrastructure, I would use
> vlan between the internal networks. Vlan will avoid the need for a second
> OpenWRT.
>
> Regards,
>
> Em seg, 7 de nov de 2016 08:32, James Allsopp <
> [email protected]> escreveu:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm currently setting up an ESXi server with OpenWRT to control access to
>> and from a set of VM's as well as providing DNS and DHCP for these
>> machines. The problem is that we want to future proof this setup, so that
>> if we run out of resources on one server we can create a new openwrt
>> instance on a new ESXi box and carry on adding machines. This means that we
>> then have to start looking at how to connect the OpenWrts to form one LAN.
>> We can't be sure that' we'll be able to cable the servers directly, so the
>> best idea I could come up with was to create a VPN bridge between them,
>> which would be good as then I would only have to run a DNS server on one of
>> the OpenWRT instances.
>>
>> Does anyone have any better ideas, or is there a standard solution to
>> this kind of problem? I imagine we could do with with a hardware switch,
>> but funds are tight.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> James
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