But if Hologram has a way to access the device like Lewis says, there's no reason to maintain a persistent VPN connection.
On Jan 31, 2018 8:45 PM, "Eric Kuhnke" <eric.kuh...@gmail.com> wrote: Slightly more expensive, but t-mobile has plans that are $20-25/mo and "unlimited" rate limited 128kbps x 128 kbps after that. For a critical site $20/mo can be worth it. $2/mo is not a realistic figure if you're maintaining a persistent VPN connection, the $ per MB rate for those sort of plans is actually worse. Just the periodic handshakes and keepalives will eat through 20-25MB in a month. On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 6:19 PM, Sean Heskett <af...@zirkel.us> wrote: > Interesting...I didn’t know there were plans for $2/mo. That definitely > makes it worthwhile to have a backdoor LTE connection to towers. > > I’ll have to check into that > > On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 1:30 PM TJ Trout <t...@voltbb.com> wrote: > >> Never, but it's not a bad idea to have out of band management? I can get >> the LTE service for $2 a month + data used (ssh data = zero) >> >> TJ >> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 12:09 PM, Sean Heskett <af...@zirkel.us> wrote: >> >>> Um how often are you loosing contact with your sites to necessitate this >>> LTE backdoor? >>> >>> Seems like a lot of overkill to make routing changes??? >>> >>> Am I missing something? >>> >>> -sean >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 11:48 AM TJ Trout <t...@voltbb.com> wrote: >>> >> Does anyone want to trade a PPTP connection (prefer you are multihomed) >>>> for the purpose of getting through LTE NAT? AKA I assign you a PPTP account >>>> with a static IPV4 and you do the same, so that if either of our networks >>>> go down we can use the others to tunnel back thru LTE to preform OOBM >>>> functions? We can shape @ 1mbps? >>>> >>>> This is a simple was around paying high fees for a static IP from the >>>> wireless carriers that even offer it... >>>> >>>> I don't really want to subscribe to some russian vpn service if I don't >>>> have to, or pay some cloud based OOBM company which will both cost way >>>> big$$$ >>>> >>>> TJ >>>> >>>> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 10:32 AM, Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> You can use PPTP through NAT on LTE. You can assign a static private >>>>> IP to both ends of that tunnel. >>>>> If PPTP won't pass something you need, you can run an EoIP tunnel >>>>> using the PPTP IP's as the endpoints of the EoIP tunnel. You end up with >>>>> a >>>>> tunnel inside of a tunnel. It'll have a lowish real MTU, but you can pass >>>>> 1500 bytes within the EoIP tunnel and it'll just be fragmented. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ------ Original Message ------ >>>>> From: "TJ Trout" <t...@voltbb.com> >>>>> To: af@afmug.com >>>>> Sent: 1/31/2018 12:51:40 PM >>>>> Subject: [AFMUG] OOBE mikrotik >>>>> >>>>> I was wanting to add out of band management via LTE to some of our >>>>> core routers, but I think most/all cellular networks are NAT now so you >>>>> cannot access your LTE devices inbound unless you have it tunnel out to a >>>>> public ip over VPN somewhere right? >>>>> >>>>> How is everyone handling OOBE? >>>>> >>>>> I'm half tempted to do it via VHF low throughput radios! >>>>> >>>>> TJ >>>>> >>>>> >>>>
