Re: GPRS IP Networking

2008-05-19 Thread Tim
Hi, I tried it two years ago with the german provider base (they had the first UMTS/GPRS flatrate). They gave my device some internal IP address. To get my device accessible from the internet I wrote a script that build an SSH tunnel (with port forwarding from server to mobile device) from

Re: GPRS IP Networking

2008-05-19 Thread Steven Kurylo
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 10:33 PM, Brandon Kruse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Either way, you could write a simple program on the phone to keep connecting to an end point (server) and give the server reverse access (stunnel) back to the device. Yeah, thats what I was hoping to avoid :-) I was

Re: GPRS IP Networking

2008-05-19 Thread Samuel Melrose
Hey, Erm, you say that SMS is free, or at-least receiving them is. Maybe if you could implement such an application, you could get your server to SMS your phone when you have important messages with a special trigger code, and then you're phone would connect and download the messages? Not

Re: GPRS IP Networking

2008-05-19 Thread Steven Kurylo
Erm, you say that SMS is free, or at-least receiving them is. Maybe if you could implement such an application, you could get your server to SMS your phone when you have important messages with a special trigger code, and then you're phone would connect and download the messages? Not sure if

Re: GPRS IP Networking

2008-05-19 Thread Bastian Muck
What about the Email-Push-Service. I don't know if this is provider specific. T-Mobile Germany offers this service for about 5 €/month with free transfer. I don't know how it works, but the name makes me think, the provider pushes the mail to the phone. Any ideas? Greetings Bastian Steven

Re: GPRS IP Networking

2008-05-19 Thread Steven Kurylo
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Bastian Muck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about the Email-Push-Service. I don't know if this is provider specific. T-Mobile Germany offers this service for about 5 €/month with free transfer. I don't know how it works, but the name makes me think, the provider

GPRS IP Networking

2008-05-18 Thread Steven Kurylo
Does someone know how IP addresses are handed out on the cellular network? Do they give each phone an IP address, or do they do NAT? I want to know if I'll be able to connect to my freerunner over GPRS, say I wanted to ssh into it. I've been searching the internet and haven't found an answer.

Re: GPRS IP Networking

2008-05-18 Thread Brandon Kruse
Either way, you could write a simple program on the phone to keep connecting to an end point (server) and give the server reverse access (stunnel) back to the device. Just what I'm thinking :) -- Brandon Kruse On May 18, 2008, at 8:22 PM, Steven Kurylo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does