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 Who has experience with setting up site to site VPN tunnels on Fortinet Fortigates behind NAT's and wants to earn 10,000 sats helping me troubleshoot this shit? 
 Gotta #asknostr  
 I don’t know if this will work but I use it a lot over Tailscale:

https://holesail.io/ 
 * instead of Tailscale 
 That looks awesome unfortunately this is so a client can connect to a state database so it's not applicable here :( 
 It will work for your use case. Give it a shot 
 I dunno about all that.  The state is pretty particular about these things.  
 Holesail is secure and no third party is involved, if the state allows it you are good to go. 
 I don't think so.  

This is a site to site tunnel, it's set up on the security appliance not the workstation.  And the local workstation is accessing the state mainframe via terminal emulator.  

Will holesail run on a mainframe lol?  
 https://m.primal.net/Jyzg.gif  
 It's a cool looking project and I'll check it out, but I cannot install this on a government database server or mainframe, literally, I don't have access.  I probably would if I could, fuck em. 
 It's for one of these private DMV offices for drivers licenses and vehicle titles.  
 Behind a NAT is just stupid. I'm sorry you're dealing with that. 
 It's so an Express DMV can connect to the state database/terminal server - but the Express DMV is owned by and in the same building as an auto title/insurance/notary office, so the owner just wanted 1 internet connection for both offices.  

tHe CusToMeR iS AlWayS RiGhT!!1 
 Cloooooown show. Ugh.

Is it even a static IP? 😂 
 Yes.  And I got it working but it was way harder than it should be.  
 Upsell that local fiber co as backup, at least!