[SPAM] Re: [Voyage-linux] Huawei E160

[Natale Vinto]

You are NATted, if you want public IP try to use another mobile
carrier or try to use  IPv6 with a tunnel ( but your clients then have
to work in ipv6 )

2009/5/21 Robert Rawlins - Think Blue <robert.rawlins at thinkbluemedia.co.uk>:
> Thanks Parker and Wayne,
>
> I thought that 80.x address looked a little suspect. I tried grabbing my
> external IP as suggested parker and it's different to both the addresses
> listed in the ppp interface and as expected doesn’t allow me to connect :-s
>
> Well, at least I know it's the service provider which needs to be spoken to
> now to see if there is anything they can do about it, if not then I'll have
> to take my business elsewhere ;-)
>
> Thank you guys for your help!
>
> Rob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Parker [mailto:mr.frank.parker at gmail.com]
> Sent: 21 May 2009 16:00
> To: Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
> Cc: voyage-linux
> Subject: Re: [SPAM] Re: [Voyage-linux] Huawei E160
>
> 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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