Public IP Address

[rgiglietto]

Hi,

I see that when we use a mobile broadband dongle, the network releases a private ip address to the dogle interface.

I need to find out a particular dongle that receives a public Ip address instead of a private one.

It is for VPN or remote control purposes.

Has Vodafone any option in UK?

Roberto

[grolschuk]

Hi Roberto

Mobile broadband dongles are configured to protect the end device from the public network by various sets of NAT and PAT routing.

There is no way without going down a bispoke solution of getting inbound connections into a broadband sim

[Neil_Brown]

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I see that when we use a mobile broadband dongle, the network releases a private ip address to the dogle interface.

I need to find out a particular dongle that receives a public Ip address instead of a private one.

It is for VPN or remote control purposes.

Has Vodafone any option in UK?

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Rather than looking for a public (and routable, which is the challenge) IP address for the dongle, could you establish a reverse SSH tunnel from the destination machine, and then connect back through that? That should circumvent any NAT/PAT problems, whilst not exposing the destination machine to the Internet.

If you were to use a certificated SSH connection, you could have a shell script to automatically re-establish the connection if it should drop?