<div dir="ltr">Thanks Mike!<div><br></div><div>for my purposes i don't necessarily need the 'bridge' function to give me a public routable address, It'll end up just being an alternative outbound path to establish an IPSEC tunnel on or provide some basic web connectivity for users.</div><div><br></div><div>all handy info to know though. just looking into some alternative solutions thanks to Telstra's efforts yesterday! :D</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Mike Everest <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@duxtel.com" target="_blank">mike@duxtel.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="white" lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Except that it won’t implement a bridge between LTE network and Ethernet (if that’s what you want)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">If it’s a public routable address on your Ethernet device that you’re after, you’ll need to implement an extra step with the SXT-LTE like make a tunnel between the LTE side and some cloud router, then bridge that tunnel to the Ethernet interface – so you can run pppoe client on the connected device, for example, connected to some cloud-based pppoe server.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">There are a few MikroTik-based alternatives that implement a similar functional result as SXT-LTE using miniPCI-e modems (as already suggested by others ;) but these will have similar limitation from perspective of bridge functionality :-}<br><br><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Happy to explain further if anyone asks ;)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><br>Cheers!<br><br>Mike.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div style="border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt"><span class=""><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"> AusNOG [mailto:<a href="mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Matt Perkins<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, 1 July 2016 10:17 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] 4G LTE bridges<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></span><div><p class="MsoNormal">These work very well. <br></p><div><div class="h5"><br><a href="http://shop.duxtel.com.au/product_info.php?products_id=402" target="_blank">http://shop.duxtel.com.au/product_info.php?products_id=402</a><br><a href="http://routerboard.com/RBSXTLTE3-7" target="_blank">http://routerboard.com/RBSXTLTE3-7</a><br><br>Matt.<br><br><br>On 1/07/2016 10:12 AM, Jay Dixon wrote:<u></u><u></u></div></div><p></p></div><div><div class="h5"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Hi all, <u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Can anyone recommend a good 4G bridge for use in an enterprise environment?<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">I'm after something along the lines of the Cradlepoint <a href="https://cradlepoint.com/products/arc-cba850" target="_blank">ARC-CBA850</a> but trying to avoid using an external USB modem, i just seem to be struggling to find something that supports the Australian specific LTE bands.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">planning to use it purely just as a basic bridge - the smarts of failover/routing/security etc will be handled by something else (likely an SRX), currently have a Telstra contract so interested in those bands specifically but would be nice to support voda/optus LTE if there's something that will do all the bands.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">three questions really...<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> - does anyone use anything similar they can recommend?<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> - has anyone used one of the cradlepoint ones in AU and had a good experience with it?<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> - am I just chasing a dead end, and will using a USB Sierra Aircard be fine anyway?<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">thanks!<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> -Jay<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br><br><br><u></u><u></u></p><pre>_______________________________________________<u></u><u></u></pre><pre>AusNOG mailing list<u></u><u></u></pre><pre><a href="mailto:AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net</a><u></u><u></u></pre><pre><a href="http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog" target="_blank">http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog</a><u></u><u></u></pre></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p><u></u> <u></u></p><pre>-- <u></u><u></u></pre><pre>/* Matt Perkins <u></u><u></u></pre><pre> Direct <a href="tel:1300%20137%20379" value="+611300137379" target="_blank">1300 137 379</a> Spectrum Networks Ptd. 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