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RE: Cell-based OOB management devices
From: "Ryan Finnesey" <rfinnesey () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:24:20 -0500
We pay $4 per SIM with at&t then about $2.50 per MB. Cheers Ryan From: PC [mailto:paul4004 () gmail com] Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 12:15 PM To: Ryan Finnesey Cc: rcheung () rochester rr com; nanog () nanog org; David Hubbard Subject: Re: Cell-based OOB management devices Second this. Custom APN to AT&T with ipsec lan2lan VPN built to the provider. Works great for this. Once you get rid of the vpn need, you can use any cheap console server. I've seen solutions ranging from little opengear boxes (which are great to ship to a remote site to help a tech set something up, BTW), to home-brew solutions involving anything that can run OpenWRT, has a usb port, and can run screen or ser2net. Prices for low volume (10mb/month) data plans typically are less than analog lines, too. On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Ryan Finnesey <rfinnesey () gmail com> wrote: We do this with at&t with a custom APN works great no need to VPN. If you want to use Sprint take a look at Sprint Data Link. You can use your IPs on the data cards. Cheers Ryan -----Original Message----- From: rcheung () rochester rr com [mailto:rcheung () rochester rr com] Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 6:41 AM To: nanog () nanog org; David Hubbard Subject: Re: Cell-based OOB management devices David, a Sprint aircard can be had with a static-ip, so that should ease remote connectivity requirements. Or, you can opt for the Datalink (private VPN) service, which separates your aircard traffic from other customers within a VRF, obviating the need to run a separate VPN client. -RC ---- David Hubbard <dhubbard () dino hostasaurus com> wrote:
Hi all, I am looking at cellular-based devices as a higher speed alternative to dial-up backup access methods for out of band management during emergencies. I was wondering if anyone had experiences with such devices they could share? Devices I've found include Sierra Wireless AirLink Raven X, Digi's ConnectWAN 3G or 4G and Opengear's ACM5004-G. I have no experience with any but they all appear to support the Sprint network which I assume would be ideal due to not having usage caps on data (currently). The Opengear device runs linux and has four serial ports, a usb port for additional storage and ethernet, so it seems to have some small advantages over the others since it could double as an emergency self-contained management station you can SSH into and run diagnostics from. All appear to have VPN/gateway support. What none of them are clear on is how you would connect to it over cellular since I assume you're just paying for a typical data plan and it will randomly obtain IP addresses. Maybe some type of dynamic dns service so you can easily figure out your device's current IP? How stable is the access to the device? Any idea if any of them can do ipv6? Thanks! David
Current thread:
- Re: Cell-based OOB management devices, (continued)
- Re: Cell-based OOB management devices Seth Mattinen (Nov 06)
- Re: Cell-based OOB management devices Dobbins, Roland (Nov 06)
- Re: Cell-based OOB management devices Cameron Byrne (Nov 07)
- Re: Cell-based OOB management devices Joe Hamelin (Nov 07)
- Re: Cell-based OOB management devices rcheung (Nov 15)
- Re: Cell-based OOB management devices Faisal Imtiaz (Nov 15)
- Re: Cell-based OOB management devices Edward Salonia (Nov 07)
- Re: Cell-based OOB management devices rcheung (Nov 15)
- RE: Cell-based OOB management devices Ryan Finnesey (Nov 15)
- Re: Cell-based OOB management devices PC (Nov 15)
- RE: Cell-based OOB management devices Ryan Finnesey (Nov 15)
- RE: Cell-based OOB management devices Ryan Finnesey (Nov 15)