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Feature Request - Home Internet Gateway DHCP Settings
T-Mo - Please enable us to set the DHCP parameters on the home internet gateway (“trashcan”). I want to use static addresses and DNS-based content filtering for my local network. Thanks.
I know this is an old thread and as far as I know there have been no hardware or software changes to remedy the problem that you can not directly vpn into your home network, BUT there are a few workarounds depending on your resources.
Our office was running a mikrotik router which I did have access too and setup openvpn to run on that. I then setup my FreeBSD or Debian Linux box to vpn from behind the T-Mobile home internet router and I was able to access my home network from the office, going back through the vpn connection. I setup a cronjob to check every 5 minutes and restart if the connection dropped though openvpn should reconnect automatically.
My boss made some upgrades and hasn't given me access to the new router yet, but I don't need it. I switched to hub and spoke model. I have a web server which I run anyway so I setup an openvpn server on that and configured it to allow peer to peer connections and to recognize the LAN networks behind clients. Add a few routes in your client networks and bing bang boom. You can get very cheap hosting for $12 - $20 a month to run such a service with a VM running linux or freebsd. So now my T-Mobile network has a linux machine that routes home network through the vpn connected to the server in the cloud, and my office linux machine routes traffic though the vpn to the same server. I can ping the hosts in the 192.168.12.0/24 network from the office and visa versa.
The only drawback is that ping times are twice the time it takes to get to the server from 1 peer rather than just across town, but I am scp'ing only a few files once in awhile to update my web pages, so not a big deal.
