Hi Guys, first time posting on here so i hope this is in the right place.
Basically im looking for some advice on a setup between 2 x 750gl routers. I currently have a number of racks with a provider in a datacentre, i am moving these servers into a purpose built building with its own leased line etc. The issue I have is the datacentre owns a considerable amount of the ips we use and its not going to be a quick task transferring customers off them. Therefore im wanting to basically colocate a routerboard at the datacentre and send the ips across to a router on our end and then into a switch and distribute to the servers. I presume this can be done with a gre tunnel? - is this a straight forward setup? .
You could use GRE/L2TP, or possibly even an EoIP tunnel. It depends on how you are connecting the 2 sites together, and what bandwidth requirements you have.
If there is minimal traffic, you could create an EoIP tunnel and bridge the 2 networks together.
GL’s are not that powerful so it really depends on how much traffic you want to pass between them.
Thanks for your reply - they are doing roughly around 50mbps at the moment. If I do a tunnel is it just a case of setting that up between the routers and then any ips announced on the datacentre side will work at the new building side?
If you run EoIP and bridge the tunnel with an interface connected to your DC lan, then yes as it works as a layer 2 network connection. If one were to use GRE/L2TP etc, you would need to split the network and route the specific IP addresses between each network.
50 Mbps is above the capabilities of low-end routers when you do encryption.
When you are forwarding internet traffic you probably don’t need encryption and can use an EoIP tunnel over the public
IP addresses of the routers without IPsec protection, and that will probably be handled ok by those routers.
When you want to have better authentication (anti-spoofing) you can use IPsec in AH mode, but it has to be
setup manually.