I have a friend with a PS5 on their own network. I’m trying to make it appear to the PS5 as if it’s connected to my local network.
Specifically, I want to:
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Assign the PS5 an IP address from my network’s range.
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Enable the PS5 to see and interact with other devices on my local network as if it were physically connected.
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This includes the ability to participate in LAN play with other devices on my network.
I’m exploring the possibility of using VPN and VPN client features, potentially with my router or his router, to achieve this.
Are there any specific settings or configurations on the PS5, my router, his router, or within VPN software that could help me achieve these goals?
I can only think of a S2S VPN between both of your routers - but i have not really played with those and consoles.
Make sure multicast stuff goes through!
This would be a VPN with a client on his PS5 to your network running a VPN server. That would assign it an IP from your network. That would also ensure that just the PS5 would be showing up on your network and not every other device he has.
What you want is an L2 VPN. There are a number of things that can support this, but you’ll likely need your friend to have a router dedicated to being the gateway to your network.
Miswire this setup and you’re going to have a bad time.
If they need multicast the difficulty goes up significantly. Most devices won’t route multicast, and even the ones that do may still not route it. I’ve found that most consumer multicast traffic is set with a TTL of 1 so it doesn’t get accidentally routed.
Some devices have the option to ignore that TTL value on multicast but it’s all enterprise gear.
Could also do VXLAN/IPsec, but again good luck finding support for that in consumer gear.
A PS five can’t install a client. unless there’s some settings for a similar effect.
Doesn’t help i have only been playing with entreprise stuff and Drayteks so i’m sorta out of the consumer market
It may depend on the type of VPN I am using, but from what I’ve observed, it typically has its own IP range. This issue might be resolved if the device the ps5 trying to connect to is also on the VPN, rather than just being part of my local network. Technically speaking, the VPN functions as my local network but with additional security measures in place.
I guess.
I don’t know a lot.
The PS five has typical Wi-Fi settings with the ability to change DNS and some other stuff. I don’t know if that could be helpful.
Ok, then you can set up a client on the router and send the ps5 traffic through it via a rule… otherwise, you can set up a VPN on a PC and share the PCs VPN with the PS5. There are a couple of posts on how to do set. I don’t have a PS5, so I can’t help you there. You need to set up a VPN server on your router. Needed to use the same VPn protocols on the server and client, whether it be OpenVPN, Wiregiard, etc.