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Yes if you're a corporate APN customer, otherwise not yet.
Have you tried [searchforum]DynDNS[/searchforum]?
Henno,
You can use the Vodacom unrestricted APN. See http://www.vodacom.co.za/services/unrestricted_apn/unrestricted_apn.jsp for more info.
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Don't think that's what henno needs. Or maybe partly.
All Vodacom APN's now use public IP's but they're dynamically assigned, i.e. not static. (I'm working on it......
)The difference between the internet and unrestricted apn's is in how incoming ports are handled?
henno, can you not use Dynamic DNS?
Why do you need a static IP?
Thanks for everyone's feedback. Perhaps I should explain my requirement a bit more.
We a server located at a hosting company, and currently the firewall is configured to only allow RDP/FTP connections from our office environment, which also has a static IP. This works great, and we're happy not to open our server's firewall to ALL internet RDP/FTP requests.
However, if our office environment goes down, as it quite often does with Telkom ADSL, we sit with an obvious problem. We lose our static IP for the moment, and are unable to RDP/FTP to our live server.
So my thinking was to get an alternative, wireless 3G or something, also with a static IP and include this IP to our live firewall, so that it may also do RDP/FTP.
From my past experience with MTN, I believe they assign an internal IP range, 172.x.x.x Not quite sure about Vodacom.
What do you guys recommend I do?
We a server located at a hosting company, and currently the firewall is configured to only allow RDP/FTP connections from our office environment, which also has a static IP. This works great, and we're happy not to open our server's firewall to ALL internet RDP/FTP requests.
However, if our office environment goes down, as it quite often does with Telkom ADSL, we sit with an obvious problem. We lose our static IP for the moment, and are unable to RDP/FTP to our live server.
So my thinking was to get an alternative, wireless 3G or something, also with a static IP and include this IP to our live firewall, so that it may also do RDP/FTP.
From my past experience with MTN, I believe they assign an internal IP range, 172.x.x.x Not quite sure about Vodacom.
What do you guys recommend I do?
You might be able to get away with using DynDNS with either the internet APN or the unrestricted APN [doesn't matter in this scenario which you decide to use - the internet APN is the default], however, the firewall at the hosting company server might not cope with a host name that can change its IP address - probably best to try it first though.
Your other alternative is to become a corporate APN customer.
Amobia can provide you with a wireless link and a fixed IP, and they have a pay for what you use model. So if you use it as a fail-over link it works well. We are using them at a number of client sites without issues.
Correct, unfortunately they don't always allow that.
Not the cheapest route in the world. v3g can put you in touch with someone at Vodacom to chat to you about it.
Basically, instead of entering an IP address in the firewall's config, just enter the DynDNS hostname instead of what would otherwise be a static IP address, maybe also use a cron job on the server to regularly re-resolve the DynDNS hostname into an IP address - your hosting company should be able to help with this...
Yep on both counts.
Don't know what MTN's IP addresses are, but the answer is sort of yes, but no it will not work in your firewall scenario.
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It's a RFC1918 range. 172.x.x.x