UMTS-Stick on nano3G?

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Andreas Schultz aschultz at tpip.net
Mon Apr 3 13:29:56 UTC 2017


Hi Andreas,

Could you provide a pcap of the Create PDP Request and Response exchange between
SGSN and GGSN?

Regards
Andreas

----- On Apr 3, 2017, at 7:50 AM, Andreas Mueller andreas.mueller at criticallabs.org wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I tried to use a Huawei E1823 UMTS-Stick on a debian8-laptop with wvdial and
> pppd to connect to a nano3G for getting an IP/Internet-connection via
> UMTS/HSDPA.
> The setup is mainly as described on
> http://osmocom.org/projects/cellular-infrastructure/wiki/Getting_Started_with_3G.
> 
> When using an android-Smartphone with the same configuration of the ggsn and the
> other components the IP/Internet-connection is working.
> 
> After pppd is started from wvdial it receives his local IP-address from the "net
> 192.168.99.0/24" parameter of ggsn.conf and also the configured DNS-Server, but
> no remote-IP, so 10.64.64.64 is used by pppd as a default value:
> 
> ...
> --> local  IP address 192.168.99.5
> --> pppd: �[7f]
> --> remote IP address 10.64.64.64
> --> pppd: �[7f]
> --> primary   DNS address 8.8.8.8
> --> pppd: �[7f]
> 
> ..which results in an unusable ppp0-device:
> ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
>          inet addr:192.168.99.5  P-t-P:10.64.64.64  Mask:255.255.255.255
>          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> 
> 
> Has anybody successfully used an UMTS-Stick with ggsn?
> How can I tell ggsn to send his IP-Adress, which can be used by pppd as "remote
> IP address"?
> Are there special options for pppd which I have to use?
> 
> 
>        thanks and greetings,
> 
>                 Andreas



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