On Friday 16 October 2015 15:08:09 Dave Cole wrote: > Key points - need help with a data cell phone connection to remote > equipment via a VPN. > > Guys, > > I'm working with some remotely located equipment and I need to > establish a comm link to it. > > We have decided to go with a cell phone data connection. We want to > be able to remotely access this equipment via a "site to site" VPN. > This is different than a client/server VPN connection that people > oftentimes use to connect back to corporate headquarters for email, > file sharing etc. > > The remote equipment is ethernet based but it is not a generic PC, > it's a PLC. So I need the remote cell phone modem/router to do all > of the work of encrypting the data, establishing the VPN tunnel, etc. > It needs to be a VPN Router with a 4G modem built in that supports a > "site to site connection" and not just be a Router with VPN > passthrough. > > Sprint sells a Netgear 6100D 4G router that is suppose to do this. I > bought it and then Sprint told me that they will not support remote > access on this device! > > Does anyone have any experience in doing this? I've been talking to > "experts" at Sprint and they want me to use a Sprint approved 4G > cell/router that only supports VPN pass through after I have told them > over and over that I need to do a site to site VPN with their 4G > router acting as a VPN endpoint. > > Sadly, they don't understand the requirements. > > Ironically, TP Link sells a "wired" VPN router for about $60 that does > what I need, so I could "stack" routers to do what I need, but I > really don't want to have two routers in the remote control box. > > There are some really brilliant people on this list so I am hoping > that someone can give me some advice/direction etc. > > Thank You! > > Dave
I have NDI whether or not a box with dd-wrt in it could do that or not, nor do I know enough about VPN's, but dd-wrt is running here and working well. dd-wrt needs a router that is reflashable, and the NetFinity series of Buffalo's at about $75 can be, and has enough ram for all the bells and whistles. Unforch, for me it died after about 2 years and I replaced it with a netgear WNR3500L, also about $70. It has half the flashrom in it that thge Buffalo has, so there's an obscure feature or 2 that I'd never use missing. But I do know that the radio can be setup so who ever is logged into it, can only access the internet, but can't touch me, or it can be bridged to allow radio access to my network. Whether or not thats enough to do what you want, I've NDI. But it could be something to consider as it does NAT, and the specified port forwarding flawlessly. The port forwarding is how you can see my web page in the sig, it is actually this machine. HTH Dave. Food for thought or for checking out. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
