# Approach to connect two private clouds together

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**Created:** [July 25, 2022, 9:19am UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/approach-to-connect-two-private-clouds-together/677 "2022-07-25T09:19:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![markamind](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/openziti.discourse.group/markamind/32/157_2.png) [@markamind](https://openziti.discourse.group/u/markamind)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 9:19am UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/approach-to-connect-two-private-clouds-together/677/1 "2022-07-25T09:19:12Z")

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I raised a post a while back.. around configuring an edge router as a gateway

> [@Configure an edge-router as gateway?](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/configure-an-edge-router-as-gateway/508):
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> And I’ve got another question: Regarding your answer with the second image ([A few technical questions with answers](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/a-few-technical-questions-with-answers/334)). Is it possible to configure an edge-router as gateway? For example, i have a few hosts in my network and would like them to communicate with services in Ziti, but without installing a tunneler or edge client on them (Just send the traffic to the “customer edge router”)? Is there a way to get this done? And i also know that this scenario does not make much sense at all, but i s…

After a lot of distractions.. walkabout.. and many new learnings...I am returning back to this to work through the video by @rcsoleng in more detail

While I cannot replicate the exact configuration described in this video... as I only have a very small home network.. I was thinking of using this approach to connect two private clouds together

Is this the right way to do it.. or is there another approach that better suits a multi cloud example.

I am not sure if the IP addresses need to be different.. as they will be the same in my case because of how the cloud computes are configured.

I look forward to your comments and suggestions

[![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/netfoundry/original/1X/40068d50e0fda920633abeb8b68a7b59518ea189.jpeg "Using an OpenZiti router as a LAN Gateway") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0qGRBMGNIA)

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**Author:** ![markamind](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/openziti.discourse.group/markamind/32/157_2.png) [@markamind](https://openziti.discourse.group/u/markamind)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 10:03am UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/approach-to-connect-two-private-clouds-together/677/2 "2022-07-25T10:03:15Z")

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Hmm… I think I just learned something new re networking… as this demo relates to LANs… not two separate private clouds.

I noticed that in this example port 53 needs to be open… along with something related to the nic ens33 (I think that is what you call it)

While I don’t understand everything… I do see now how this is not suitable for connecting two private clouds.

As my internal network is too small to do this… I was thinking about using a Docker instance somehow

Any tips… as I really like this demo… I just don’t have enough resources to work through all of the steps.