[AusNOG] 3G Broadband OOB network suggestions

[James Paussa]

+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.

Regards,
James.

On 20/01/2012 9:45 PM, Tom Storey wrote:
> Ive used opengear ACM5000's for a previous project, and they work 
> quite well. 5004-G specifically.
>
> http://opengear.com/product-acm5000.html
>
> A tad on the pricey side is probably their only downside.
>
> 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.)
>
> 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.
>
> Worth a look IMO. Neat little boxes.
>
> Tom
>
> On 18 January 2012 11:29, Anand Kumria <akumria at acm.org 
> <mailto:akumria at acm.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     I'm sure most of you have an OOB network, and I'm now finding I have
>     some clients where I now have the same need.
>
>     So I'm looking for some solutions, I'm tending towards 3G Broadband
>     but am open to others; rough requirements
>
>      - works with Windows, Mac OS *and* Linux (I can leave some on the
>     client site, and have them install into any available computer to
>     diagnose their internal network that way)
>      - provides a static IP (v4 or v6 acceptable) address
>      - at least 1G / month; with options to increase should a
>     'problem' occur.
>
>     Slightly different use cases at different clients:
>
>      - for some, it'll be used to monitor both internal / external
>     networks without perturbing them
>      - for others, it'll be used as a means of last resort remote access
>     during an outage
>
>     Unfortunately none of the clients are large enough to warrant
>     dual-homing.
>
>     Replies welcome off-list and I'll summarise responses back to the list
>     in a few days.
>
>     Thanks,
>     Anand
>
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