[SPAM] Re: [Voyage-linux] Huawei E160
Frank Parker
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Thu May 21 22:59:45 HKT 2009
You are getting a 10.0.0.0 address which is RFC1918, so yes it is being NAT'd.
Check your address as it appears to the outside world, like this:
curl http://checkip.dyndns.org
If you don't have curl installed. Try wget:
wget -qO /tmp/checkip.html http://checkip.dyndns.org && cat /tmp/checkip.html
--parker
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
<robert.rawlins at thinkbluemedia.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Wayne,
>
> The local and public IP's on the interface are both different to that which
> is displayed on the remote sites as my IP when I'm hitting them. The ppp
> interface looks like this:
>
> ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
> inet addr:10.90.235.192 P-t-P:10.64.64.64 Mask:255.255.255.255
> UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:21 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:23 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
> RX bytes:2498 (2.4 KiB) TX bytes:1359 (1.3 KiB)
>
> Hopefully the provider isn't nating the service, are you able to tell from
> those details or will I need to contact them?
>
> I've not made any modifications to the IP tables myself, this is a
> completely clean voyage 0.6.0 build with just wvdial installed, I've not
> made any changes to configurations outside of that.
>
> Thanks mate,
>
> Rob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wayne Lee [mailto:linkconnect at googlemail.com]
> Sent: 21 May 2009 15:09
> To: Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
> Subject: Re: [SPAM] Re: [Voyage-linux] Huawei E160
>
> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
> <robert.rawlins at thinkbluemedia.co.uk> wrote:
>> OK Seems like I now have this working! :-D
>>
>> Seems that it was connecting just fine but the reason I couldn't ping
>> anything was because I was connected via Ethernet to the box and the
> default
>> route wasn't being set properly when the GPRS ppp connection was
>> established.
>>
>> I edit /etc/ppp/peers/wvdial and added the option 'replacedefaultroute'
> and
>> now when the connection is established I can ping and wget using the ppp
>> connection :-)
>>
>> One thing I have been unable to do though is connect inbound via SSH using
>> the ppp connection, I can still only connect using the Ethernet. I've done
> a
>> wget on an URL which gives me the boxes remote IP address on the ppp
>> connection however trying to connect via SSH on that IP from another
> system
>> doesn't seem to work.
>>
>> Any suggestions on what I might need to do to get those inbound
> connections
>> working?
>
> Some of the 3g providers NAT your connection so inbound services will not
> work
>
> What is the IP on your ppp interface ?
>
> Also do you have iptables blocking inbound ssh ?
>
>
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