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Re: Console Servers & Cellular Providers
From: Brian Loveland <brian () bloveland com>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 04:21:09 +0000
We have >100 AT&T units deployed and about 35 Verizon units and have had virtually no issues with call home via openvpn. All opengear ACM7xxx series. We are using machine to machine plans from marketplace.att.com. Used to be a great deal, the new plans are still “fair” and better than standard consumer/business prepaid plans. We average around 100MB/mo/device, we could probably improve that with some effort on keepalives etc. We have had coverage issues in some sites but in the colos we are in it has been fine. In colo we usually also take “house” IP due to XC costs blowing out any 3rd parties, and I have done DSL on PSTN XC before, but even in those cases the LTE is still useful particularly for turn up where the colo house ip rarely “just works”. On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 12:56 PM Randy Carpenter <rcarpen () network1 net> wrote:
Static IPs are useful for connecting to the "home" site. If our main office is offline for some reason, it is nice to be able to quickly connect via cellular OoB. I agree that other solutions (dial-home, or private network) make sense for satellite sites. thanks, -Randy ----- On Feb 7, 2018, at 12:47 PM, Chris Marget chris () marget com wrote:Lots of references to static IPs from cellular providers for OoB accessinthis thread. Why? It seems like a dial-home scheme is an obvious solution here, whether it's Opengear's Lighthouse product, openvpn, or whatever... Do you all have a security directive that demands whitelisted IPaddresses?I've got a handful of OoB systems that dial home via cellular, but only after they've been poked by SMS. Opengear's auto-response facilitatesthat,and I've done it with EEM (to start DMVPN) on Cisco ISRs. The main headache I've run into is that it's tough to get a SIM card from ATT that does data and SMS: ATT's M2M plans don't allow SMS, and movingtheSIM from an iPhone to "a computer" causes the SMS capability to vanish.MyATT OoB boxes (used only where Verizon is reported to not work) areonlineall the time.
Current thread:
- Re: Console Servers & Cellular Providers, (continued)
- Re: Console Servers & Cellular Providers James Milko (Feb 07)
- Re: Console Servers & Cellular Providers Pennington, Scott (Feb 07)
- Re: Console Servers & Cellular Providers David Hubbard (Feb 07)
- RE: Console Servers & Cellular Providers Edwin Pers (Feb 07)
- Re: Console Servers & Cellular Providers Mike Hammett (Feb 13)
- Re: Console Servers & Cellular Providers James Milko (Feb 07)
- Re: Console Servers & Cellular Providers Kenneth McRae (Feb 07)
- RE: Console Servers & Cellular Providers Mann, Jason (Feb 07)
- Re: Console Servers & Cellular Providers chris (Feb 07)
- Re: Console Servers & Cellular Providers Chris Marget (Feb 07)
- Re: Console Servers & Cellular Providers Randy Carpenter (Feb 07)
- Re: Console Servers & Cellular Providers Brian Loveland (Feb 12)
- Re: Console Servers & Cellular Providers David Hubbard (Feb 07)
- Re: Console Servers & Cellular Providers Chris Marget (Feb 07)
- Re: Console Servers & Cellular Providers Michael Rave (Feb 07)
- Re: Console Servers & Cellular Providers Saku Ytti (Feb 08)