as far as I remember,

try using sunrise with, what I preferred, is the takeway offer as this charges you only if you're dialed in so if you need it one month only for lets say 2 days, it costs you only these days + base fee

for the APN use "remote" and let me know if you find a firewall, I was able to use everything. it gives you a public IP where I think it was dynamic.

Silvan

Am 26.08.2008 um 15:03 schrieb Chris Gravell:

Hoi,

Does anyone have any direct experience with this WIC with any GSM provider's (Sunrise, Orange, Swisscom et al.) in Switzerland?

I want to use this card as dial-backup to a WAN connection (Serial, DSL etc). So far I have it working with Sunrise and Orange depending on the (APN) Access Point Name and Profile.

However, none of the APN provisioned by the GSM Providers'/ available for their SIM's feature what I really require. Those being:

1. Publically assigned IP

2. Static IP (Dynamic will work too - intend to create a DMVPN

tunnel to backhaul one providers' IP range over the GSM providers' IP network and DMVPN will do this even where the "spoke" or GSM interface is dynamically assigned)

3. No NAT/PAT in the GSM provider's network (i.e. some APN assign a

private IP to the GSM interface and NAT this at the edge of the GSM provider's network)

4. Permit ALL IP protocols (NO firewalling along the path - some GSM

provider's permit only http, ftp etc)

Sunrise and Orange support similar options but not all. Does anyone know if Swisscom or another provider might offer an APN product that accommodates all requirements as a solution?

This cisco WIC only came out last year so info is relatively thin on the ground. The configuration is trivial but the hard part is finding a GSM Provider that will treat this as a viable backup solution for business' and not just a cut down version/ poor man's IP connectivity for mobile phones.

Any ideas, tips or tricks welcomed.

Thanks,

Chris Gravell

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