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Packet by Packet Issue #1 | IPsec VPN Site-to-Site — Tunneling Between My Homelab and Anywhere

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A practical walk-through of building an IPsec site-to-site VPN between a FortiGate hub and a MikroTik spoke — real configs, phase-by-phase explanations, and the number-one silent failure that trips up every first-time build.

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