[146508] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cell-based OOB management devices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (rcheung@rochester.rr.com)
Tue Nov 15 06:34:27 2011
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 6:34:15 -0500
From: <rcheung@rochester.rr.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org, David Hubbard <dhubbard@dino.hostasaurus.com>
In-Reply-To: <FCD26398C5EDE746BFC47F43EA52A173054DA958@dino.ad.hostasaurus.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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
>
>
