Openvpn on 4gee Home Broadband

jaffacakemonste
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I have moved over from BT wired broadband to 4gee home broadband. I am trying to get Openvpn set up again (I use Road Warrior and a dynamic DNS service) but I am having problems, I think the issue is carrier grade NAT as the various net services thinks my ip address is 109.xxx.xxx.xxx but the router thinks it is 100.xxx.xxx.xxx

Any advice on how to solve?

Thanks.

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XRaySpeX
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@jaffacakemonste : You are finding yourself up against a limitation of EE's mobile network. The EE mobile network uses Carrier Grade NAT (CGNAT) resulting in a double NAT, which games consoles often object to, which means you don't get your own public IP address but share it with other users. So you can't be uniquely id'ed on the Net & therefore your LAN cannot be addressed from outside for unsolicited accesses. This is unlike fixed BB.

If this occurs there is nowt you can do to avoid it.

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