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

Fri May 22 16:14:56 HKT 2009

@ Natale, sorry for getting your name wrong, I'd had my contact lenses in a
little too long I think, misread your name ;-) I'll have a look around the
providers today and see if anyone provides non-NATed addresses, I don't need
them to be static as they call home to the server once a minute and I can
grab the IP they're using, it just needs to be real and not masked in any
way :-)

@ Gustin, thanks for that suggestion, it's looking more and more like this
idea of some kind of tunnel is going to be the best option, just one I
didn’t really want to get into :-(

We have a fair number of these little clients and the network is continually
growing, I just don't want to get bogged down in configuring port
forwarding, the main reason we're considering the move to a mobile network
is so we don't have to configure routers at client locations, it'll kind of
void the point of moving if we still get bogged down in that kind of thing,
y'know? I want a hassle free life style ;-) Maybe it's time for a career
change haha

However, it looks rather inevitable that we'll have to take that route which
is a shame, let's see what happens today when I speak with the providers.
:-)

Thanks,

Rob

-----Original Message-----
From:
voyage-linux-bounces+robert.rawlins=thinkbluemedia.co.uk at list.voyage.hk
[mailto:voyage-linux-bounces+robert.rawlins=thinkbluemedia.co.uk at list.voyage
.hk] On Behalf Of Natale Vinto
Sent: 21 May 2009 20:03
To: voyage-linux
Subject: Re: [SPAM] Re: [Voyage-linux] Huawei E160

You're welcome Robert but my name is Natale,I'm a male :)
Anyway public IP costs to carriers..! So I think you should choose
some of the first mobile carrier that has bought IPs, for example here
in Italy only TIM has public IPs because it was the first and only
mobile carrier so it could buy them with no problems :) Here
Vodafone,H3G and Wind has NAT, cheap and safe!

2009/5/21 Robert Rawlins - Think Blue <robert.rawlins at thinkbluemedia.co.uk>:
> Thanks Natalie.
>
> I spoke with my service provider (o2) this afternoon and got told off for
> using my phone SIM in the dongle :-( they suggested that this was perhaps
> causing the problem. I went to the store this afternoon and picked up a
> proper mobile broadband SIM, topped it up with credit and have just
> connected and still get NATed.
>
> I'll try and speak with their technical department tomorrow but something
> tells me that this will be a pain.
>
> I've been talking with Wayne about setting up a tunnel, we'll see if that
> works for us, we just have a fair number of these systems going out the
door
> and I don't want to get caught up in too much administration so the
simpler
> we can keep things the better.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> voyage-linux-bounces+robert.rawlins=thinkbluemedia.co.uk at list.voyage.hk
>
[mailto:voyage-linux-bounces+robert.rawlins=thinkbluemedia.co.uk at list.voyage
> .hk] On Behalf Of Natale Vinto
> Sent: 21 May 2009 18:53
> To: voyage-linux
> Subject: Re: [SPAM] Re: [Voyage-linux] Huawei E160
>
> 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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