I’m WFH. My employer has provider a vpn router for my work computer and an IP phone.
Is it possible to setup a vpn router in front of my employers vpn router and work from a different state or country?
The idea is to rent a vm in my home city and setup a vpn server. I’d connect to this server via a VPN router and tunnel an ip phone and a cisco Meraki z1.
I assume it would be fine with the ip phone but I’m worried that the Cisco gateway might be able to detect such a setup? Or would it be fine?
i do something very similar to live in Brazil but work “in” the US.
Are you using all work provided hardware? Meaning regionised pc and software to where you are supposed to be?? The ip telephone could have GPS though. Not sure for pc. If it’s a not a commercial vpn service, I guess it would be a lot more difficult to detect. Maybe…… would the VM itself be running in the states in which you are supposed to be for work? Meaning that a ping to your machine would return a time and traceroute consistent with a pc in that state. The CON would just be that your user experience could be laggy…. In other words you go terminal server. Now it’s not a vpn detection issue but more of a VM detection issue. Be careful about the tax repercussion issues. It could be the IRS that hunts you down, not your employer!!
It will work fine. You may have to tweak your MTUs to get it working well, but your basic idea works on a technical level.
Note that if you use an IP address belonging to a local hosting provider or other datacenter, your employer could notice that.
I’ve helped a few people do this, and in each case we left a raspberry Pi or an enterprise router plugged into a “legit” consumer ISP internet connection. Sometimes at a relative or friend’s house, sometimes at their own if it’s just for a vacation.
Great question. Can you tell me how you set up your VPN router? I WFH too and want to work abroad. I know there are 3 ways to prevent the company from finding out. One: get a travel router, set up a raspberry pi, or use an open VPN. IDK which one is the best option, to be honest, but I know connecting to your work VPN with a VPN that has general geolocation might look suspicious.
You know you could just ask your employer if it’s ok to work from another country right
It depends on what VPN your company uses. Some corporate VPNs like Palo Alto don’t allow VPN tunnel within s VPN tunnel. You’d need to test if you can connect to your corporate VPN when you’re already behind a VPN. If it works, then, you should be fine!
If you are using public VPN, your server IP address might be listed in public search list such as IP2Proxy.
Your boss might be able to know if you are behind VPN, but not sure where you are located.