Linking two or three offices, site to site
Your office printer, file server or camera recorder, reachable from your other office, as if it were down the hall. Site-to-site links two offices' networks through TunnelNet, set up from the portal.
What it does
Each office already has its router connected to TunnelNet. A link joins the two networks: devices at office A reach devices at office B, and back, over the encrypted tunnels. Nothing is opened to the internet for it.
It works on UniFi gateways with our agent today. Each office's network needs its own address range (for example 192.168.1.x at one and 192.168.20.x at the other).
Setting it up
- Both offices are TunnelNet Business sites with the UniFi agent installed.
- In the portal, create a link between the two sites.
- Both routers make their own keys and pick up the link at their next check-in with the portal. Nothing to paste.
Removing the link in the portal removes it from both routers.
What we measured, in our lab
- Cutting one office's main line, with the router switching to its backup: traffic between the offices stopped for 1.6 to 1.8 seconds (3 runs). Switching back lost nothing.
- With the portal unreachable and the agent restarted, the link came back on its own from the last settings it had, in about 7 seconds.
Three offices
We have tested two offices linked together so far. Three is the next thing we're trying on our own sites, and we'll update this guide with what we find.
Site-to-site is new. We're trying it on our own sites now. Questions: support@minakilabs.com.