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Re: Feature Request - Home Internet Gateway DHCP Settings
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.106Views0likes0CommentsRe: Feature Request - Home Internet Gateway DHCP Settings
I agree the nokia gateway has almost no configurable features and TMobile should release a firmware upgrade to remedy these problems. There is a tedious work around for some of the problems particularly if you have an old router or old pc with 2 NIC’s at your disposal. I was with another provider and to help filter traffic I setup and old PC and installed PFSENSE with 1 port connected to my LAN and the other to the provider. I had setup OpenVPN and also used port forwarding to remotely connect to my home network and really miss those features with the t-mobile internet gateway. My old connection is still active (1 year paid) and I connected my old linksys router to the pfsense box and switched the pfsense LAN to 192.168.12.0 network and then connected them to the ethernet ports on the t-mobile gatewayand set the LAN as the default gateway. I disabled DHCP on the pfsense and linksys routers. I can now VPN through my old connection and go out through the higher speed 5G tmobile gateway. Now I know PFSENSE can block DHCP requests per interface and issue DHCP leases on other interfaces or alternatvely put the pfsense/router box on another network such as 192.168.1.1 and have it handle all your DHCP and DNS requests. In this case I could use the linksys router for wireless or setup and wireless access point connected to the pfsense box. Note that any direct wifi connections to the 5G gateway will bypass the pfsense box and get DHCP and DNS from the t-mobile 5G gateway/router. You still wouldn’t be able to use port forwarding (useful if you want to check your home security cameras) without a second connection mentioned above but it would allow some control of DHCP and DNS. You should be able to do something similar with any old wifi router even without a pfsense box. Connect with the lan switch at the back to the t-mobile gateway or connect the WAN and use a different LAN network (I haven’t tried this with the wan port yet but seems it would work if you used a different network for the LAN on the old router). I can say the T-MOBILE is much faster than my fixed connection, so for now I use that for outgoing and the fixed to get around the t-mobile limitations, at least till my other subscription expires.52Views2likes0Comments