We have a similar setup to this as well and it works brilliantly. We mostly use it to send out to integrators etc so we can provide remote support to them anywhere. Opengear lent us a demo unit as well, and I believe they have a rep on this list who can provide more info? The most impressive part was them rolling us a new firmware in less than 24 hours of reporting a bug, very responsive organisation IMO.<div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 6:56 PM, James Paussa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@puzza.org">lists@puzza.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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+1 for the ACM5004-G. Run these just on NextG with OpenVPN running
to a VPS offnet giving us out of band. Worth its weight in gold.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
James.<div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 20/01/2012 9:45 PM, Tom Storey wrote:
<blockquote type="cite">Ive used opengear ACM5000's for a previous project,
and they work quite well. 5004-G specifically.
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<div>A tad on the pricey side is probably their only downside.</div>
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<div>Includes a bracket which can be used to install in a rack
(2/3 of a rack unit) or attach to a wall, and an external
antenna connector so you can attach a higher gain external
antenna for areas with patchy or weak coverage (all of my
installations were cabinets in rural locations, so very
important.)</div>
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<div>You can use an IP reachability rule to determine whether it
should route packets over the LAN interface or 3G interface. I
had mine setup to monitor reachability to a particular core
router IP, on the basis that if that became unreachable, theres
a failure preventing access to it over the LAN, so it should
route out over the WAN, so you then SSH to its WAN IP (helps if
you have a static) and youre in. IIRC it has a dyndns client,
but you'd want to double check that.</div>
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<div>Worth a look IMO. Neat little boxes.</div>
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<div>Tom<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 18 January 2012 11:29, Anand Kumria
<span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:akumria@acm.org" target="_blank">akumria@acm.org</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
I'm sure most of you have an OOB network, and I'm now
finding I have<br>
some clients where I now have the same need.<br>
<br>
So I'm looking for some solutions, I'm tending towards 3G
Broadband<br>
but am open to others; rough requirements<br>
<br>
- works with Windows, Mac OS *and* Linux (I can leave some
on the<br>
client site, and have them install into any available
computer to<br>
diagnose their internal network that way)<br>
- provides a static IP (v4 or v6 acceptable) address<br>
- at least 1G / month; with options to increase should a
'problem' occur.<br>
<br>
Slightly different use cases at different clients:<br>
<br>
- for some, it'll be used to monitor both internal /
external<br>
networks without perturbing them<br>
- for others, it'll be used as a means of last resort
remote access<br>
during an outage<br>
<br>
Unfortunately none of the clients are large enough to
warrant dual-homing.<br>
<br>
Replies welcome off-list and I'll summarise responses back
to the list<br>
in a few days.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Anand<br>
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