Site Connection via the Internet

Dark-Knight

Suppose I have two sites, one in NY (10.9.9.0 /24) and one in California (10.18.77.0 /24), and I want to connect those sites through the Internet. I want to ping from one host in NY to another in CA. For example, ping from 10.9.9.73 to 10.18.77.99. What I am trying to say is that although those hosts are connected through the Internet, it would seem as if they aren't. How do I do this?

Mow

The two sites are going to be behind a NAT device that allows the inside, private IP addresses to be translated to outside, public IP addresses, which also happen to be route-able through the internet. If you want to ping from one internal set of IP addresses to the other, you will need some sort of VPN or other WAN technology that routes the traffic to the correct outside IP.

davenull

You can't ping directly, they are private ip ranges. You'd have to set up VPN between the two sites.

Edit: Mow beat me to this.