[146510] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cell-based OOB management devices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Faisal Imtiaz)
Tue Nov 15 08:43:49 2011
In-Reply-To: <20111115113416.HO6GH.49151.root@hrndva-web09-z01>
From: Faisal Imtiaz <faisal@snappydsl.net>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 08:49:17 -0500
To: "<rcheung@rochester.rr.com>" <rcheung@rochester.rr.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
A very flexible solution can be done with the Mikrotik family of routers....=
see this as an example for more details..
http://mum.mikrotik.com/presentations/BR09/3G_Applications.pdf
Faisal
On Nov 15, 2011, at 6:34 AM, <rcheung@rochester.rr.com> wrote:
> David, a Sprint aircard can be had with a static-ip, so that should ease r=
emote connectivity requirements. Or, you can opt for the Datalink (private V=
PN) service, which separates your aircard traffic from other customers withi=
n a VRF, obviating the need to run a separate VPN client.
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> ---- David Hubbard <dhubbard@dino.hostasaurus.com> wrote:=20
>> 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?
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>> 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.
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>> 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=20
>> 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?
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>> Thanks!
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>> David
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