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VPN Tunnelling Using MAC Address

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by chad r.

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I was informed by a gentleman that you could create a VPN Tunnel using the servers MAC address as the connection. This would help solve a lot of problems with a ADSL connect between two offices under the same provider. They are wanting to connect them together but they are being issue Non-routable address, also it will cost $40 a month more for static address. I need to know if using a MAC address in VPN is possible and how

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by timthetoolman

Hi,

Umm... not that I'm aware of. A MAC address doesn't contain any information about where one might be able to physically find it on the internet...

You should be able to connect the two offices together using a couple of routers (one at each end) that do NAT.

Cheers,
Tim.

by ann777

You cannot use mac addresses as routeable addresses.

My understanding is that you have one ip address, and one router doing NAT. Essentially you want to reach other computers within the LAN. The only way to accomplish this (without paying for more ip addresses), is to install remote control software such as PC Anywhere.

Setup your server with PC Anywhere and vpn into that server then run pc anywhere and connect to other servers also running pc anywhere in a "waiting for connection" mode.

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