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Teamviewer vpn for dc replication

Hi, we moved offices about a month ago and previously we had an mpls on each of our 2 sites which allowed the domain controllers to replicate with one another no problem but once we moved, we no longer are using those mpls so was looking for a way to allow just the replication from site to site at least for domain controllers.  I recently saw that a software vpn can be created between 2 machines using teamviewer.  It looks perfect for what i want to accomplish which is to allow replication to take place again between the domain controllers on each site but wanted to know if this is ok to install this setup using the domain controllers and is this a secure scenario?  Wont be allowing any users to share or map folders between the servers but only want this so replication can take place again since dont want server to tombstone.  Thanks
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why don't you just create a site-site vpn at your router level?
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Thats what i had before but problem is somebody else handled that after me for a while and they switched the router on one site to a cradlepoint router and the other site also changed to another brand router and i dont have acccess to either one so was trying to find out if there's a way to at least for the time being set up something where each site can at least have connectivity to each other so the domain controllers can replicate.  Can this be done in any way using remote desktop?  Doesnt even have to be a permanent setup just need to do it once a week even until they install a connection between sites which is the plan they said.
Was also thinking of setting up Routing and remote access vpn server on one of the 2012 servers but never did this before and saw that when some people did it their dns servers experienced issues
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thanks for comprehensive suggestions.  You are correct about teamviewer creating its own ip addresses for each server so it would not be a feasible solution since having different ip and subnets on the servers with teamviewer didnt even allow me to ping other servers on the network and when i tested replication between the 2 servers it didnt work anyway.  The openvpn sounds like it would be a good setup so i will take a look at that.  What about software managed vpns?  A few years ago we were using a service that installed software on one machine on each site and once they created the connection we were able to access both sites although i do remember they assigned different ip addresses to each machine that software was running on but the 2 addresses were same subnet which is why it probably worked.  I forgot the name of the software but it worked pretty well until they decided to get rid of it which was a mistake in hindsight since it wasnt that expensive either.
A VPN service is of course an option, but I do not have any experience with them. It should work because those VPNs can build meshs with correct routing. If you are willing to pay for such a service, it is worth some thoughts.
Took a look at the openvpn and it looks good but just wanted to confirm something.  Does it really require a linux machine to be installed on or can this run on windows server?  The instructions i saw only seemed to list linux.
You'll have to make sure you are looking for the free Community Edition stuff, openVPN Access Server is an appliance with many enhancements.
OpenVPN runs on Windows, of course, otherwise I would not have suggested it ;-).
Ok i found it and it and yea i figured you wouldnt have suggested it if it didnt run on windows.  Thanks again for all the help.