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 <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
Slightly OT but somewhat related questions: 
1) Are web servers allowed on these cell-based ISPs?
2) What about Starlink?
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