How could I easily mesh 2 LAN networks together over WAN?

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Hi, so I have a bunch of PCs in my LAN with different fixed 192.168.x.x addresses.
At another location I have a couple of other PCs and what I want to achieve is to sort of bind the remote PCs to my local LAN so that the remote PCs would have local 192.168.x.x address. And I want the remote computers to also see my local computers with the same 192.168.x.x addresses as if all computers would be in one happy LAN.

What would be the easiest way of doing this?
 
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They are all forms of VPN. It is very different to say connect a single machine in a remote location to connecting a number of machine in a remote location to a number of machine in the local location.

If you only have 2 machine you might consider pc software based vpn running on the machines but the dynamic IP addresses are going to add another layer of complexity.

What you are asking to do is a fairly advanced networking concept and will require you to spend time to learn many of the networking basics. It is not something you can click "install" and it magically work.
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In general you want to use a VPN but it is a extremely difficult problem to have them on the same actual LAN. You would need to use 2 different subnets..ie 192.168.1.x and 192.168.2.x for example. Still your first problem is getting routers that can run any form of vpn in the first place.
 
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The IPs are dynamic and the it's a few kilometers away on a different ISP.

Isn't there any emulation tools that would do what I want? I remember being able to play old games that only worked on LAN with some LAN emulators back in the day.
 
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bill001g

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They are all forms of VPN. It is very different to say connect a single machine in a remote location to connecting a number of machine in a remote location to a number of machine in the local location.

If you only have 2 machine you might consider pc software based vpn running on the machines but the dynamic IP addresses are going to add another layer of complexity.

What you are asking to do is a fairly advanced networking concept and will require you to spend time to learn many of the networking basics. It is not something you can click "install" and it magically work.
 
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In that case, your best bet is to ask each ISP for a static IP address and create an IKE tunnel between the two sites, assuming the router/firewall can accommodate IKE. Alternatively, if you used the same ISP for both sites then they could do it instead. Either way, expect to pay for the privilege.

As bill001g said though, you'd need each site to be on a different subnet.
 
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