Actually, if you have some clout, AT&T or most providers will give you a
dedicated apn for your biz to connect cellular direct devices to a
dedicated circuit, and you mpls route to them via that way as a private
cellular network.

We use that at my client today and before, it's useful, att, tmo/sprint and
verizon do the same on their networks.

I know various carrier folk for eons now, I thought to ask for my own cell
cell data apn, but they care little of the little fry and laughed mockingly
asking how much cash I had.  Not that much, natch.

-mb


On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 4:09 PM Michael Butash <michael@butash.net> wrote:

> On Starlink, now that you mention it, I'm kinda curious too.  What *do*
> they allow for ports?  I've been on a list asking for a starlink for years,
> but I don't tweet with twits, so guess I don't get invited.
>
> My guess: They treat it like a cellco, ie all cgnat with no inbound ports,
> only outbound.  If you want inbound ports, you need to talk to our
> "business" division.
>
> No cellco allows inbound service generally, if they do, consider
> yourselves fortunate of a bygone era.  If you need that, you need something
> like zerotier, tailscale, or random vpn here, and some port forwarding
> engine between.  It's what people do these days.
>
> I don't think any cellco allows inbound ports other than on the local lan,
> or any vpn service that acts as an intermediary the same in theory.
>
> -mb
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 1:21 PM Joe Neglia via PLUG-discuss <
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>> Slightly OT but somewhat related questions:
>> 1) Are web servers allowed on these cell-based ISPs?
>> 2) What about Starlink?
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