Anyone else having trouble with att tilt vpn over edge? I've had several smartphones in the past, the last being tmobile wing, and have never had any problems creating a vpn connection with url exceptions. With this new tilt it seems like I can connect the vpn only over wifi, it does not attempt to connect to the vpn when just using edge. I've reset the device several times both with and without the att customization.
Any ideas for this problem would be appreciated.
Thanks,
-J
TILT VPN Connection problems
I have been trying to make VPN connections over EDGE and 3G also. I find that the connection does get made if I connect manually, but as soon as I try to access something through IE, RD or Opera, it drops the connection. I have seen the connection maintained for up to a minute, but I cannot access anything.
I called ATT yesterday early afternoon. At that point the CSR was a proxy for the tech dept and told me to call HTC. I contacted HTC tech support and they were convinced it was an att softwae problem since the url exceptions worked correctly over wifi.
I called back ATT last night, got a csr who xfer me to a tech rep. He walked through the steps and provisioned isp.cingular apn to see if that would work. It did not. He then sent me to advanced network services where I got someone who definately was either not having a good night or had no intention of actually working that night. After his xfer to a bad extension, I called back to a csr, who then semi-understood the situation ( she was actually excellent help at the time for not being a tech person ) She put me with another advanced network services tech ( the first time she called advanced tech services she was hungup on by the same "Steve" I had encounted a few minutes earlier. Nice work Steve) who walked through the settings a few times, and then suggested I try another tilt at an att store.
Unfortunately it seems as though noone I've talked to yet has a grasp on url exceptions or what a vpn is? Noone from ATT or HTC seems to understand that its the software that's not trying to even attempt to connect to the vpn. I would be fine if it was my problem, vpn wise. I'm sure they're just doing their jobs but it's a little frustrating to pay $550 for a phone to have it no do something your other htc phone was doing last week. Anyways thats where I'm at now. I will try to go to an att store tonight and see if it works on another phone. I'm curious to know if anyone with the regular kaiser ( with the front camera ) is having a similar problem.
-J
Round 1
I called ATT yesterday early afternoon. At that point the CSR was a proxy for the tech dept and told me to call HTC. I contacted HTC tech support and they were convinced it was an att softwae problem since the url exceptions worked correctly over wifi.
I called back ATT last night, got a csr who xfer me to a tech rep. He walked through the steps and provisioned isp.cingular apn to see if that would work. It did not. He then sent me to advanced network services where I got someone who definately was either not having a good night or had no intention of actually working that night. After his xfer to a bad extension, I called back to a csr, who then semi-understood the situation ( she was actually excellent help at the time for not being a tech person ) She put me with another advanced network services tech ( the first time she called advanced tech services she was hungup on by the same "Steve" I had encounted a few minutes earlier. Nice work Steve) who walked through the settings a few times, and then suggested I try another tilt at an att store.
Unfortunately it seems as though noone I've talked to yet has a grasp on url exceptions or what a vpn is? Noone from ATT or HTC seems to understand that its the software that's not trying to even attempt to connect to the vpn. I would be fine if it was my problem, vpn wise. I'm sure they're just doing their jobs but it's a little frustrating to pay $550 for a phone to have it no do something your other htc phone was doing last week. Anyways thats where I'm at now. I will try to go to an att store tonight and see if it works on another phone. I'm curious to know if anyone with the regular kaiser ( with the front camera ) is having a similar problem.
-J
Sorry for that last double post. I did go back to the att kiosk again today and tried another tilt, which had the same results. I decided to return the one I had purchased and think i may try the regular htc kaiser with the front camera.
If anyone can verify that that version of phone works with pptp, that would be great.
From your last message I tried a few other things and I too was able to manually connect ( even get a prompt for login credentials to the vpn ) however the IE still will not try to connet with the url exception or keep the vpn connection open after IE is opened.
It's sad to think the att tilt is not working in thie regard. It takes away quite a bit of functionality for those who do use the vpn feature.
-J
PIE will "ignore" exceptions for work connection using EDGE
I see similar problem with 8525 at&t WM 5.0 device (HTC Hermes) exact version Microsoft ® Windows Mobile™ Version 5.0 with the Messaging and Security Feature Pack. 5.0 OS 5.1.478 (Build 15706.3.5.2)
PIE will "ignore" exceptions for work connection using EDGE. However other applications like “ActiveSync” and “Terminal Service Client” work properly.
If Wi-Fi connection used for Internet, PIE as well works properly.
FYI on previous device 8525 Cingular
Microsoft ® Windows Mobile™ Version 5.0 OS 5.1.195 (Build 14955.2.3.0)
work exceptions works with PIE
it continues...
I ordered htc kaiser, had it shipped opened it, configured, and the results were.....
it would use work exceptions as it should, dialing the vpn when using PIE and calling trying to access a host in the exceptions list.
It did not however want to connect to the host even after establishing a connection with the vpn server.
I dont know why, but I thought of checking the ip address with PocketLan on the gprs interface. The ip address was a 10.x.x.x but the kicker was the subnet mask using 255.0.0.0. That may cause a problem with routing as my vpn tunnel is not a full 10/8 but still a 10/16. Anyway I decided to try the online tech chat and spoke with "Marcus"
I asked if there had been any changes in the last month or so on as far as ip address scopes using wap.cingular He said yes. I'm still not sure if that was actually the case or not . I went ahead and upgraded to the pda connect unlimited to use the isp.cingular, as the "pda personal max" just uses wap.cingular.
I had to connect several times with the isp.cingular to have the connection get a public ip address rather than a nat'd 10.x.x.x. It DOES now work properly with url exceptions, connecting the vpn, the whole ball of wax with isp.cingular
Unfortunately I had already returned the ATT Tilt so I dont have any way to test if it was the att software causing it or not. If anyone would like to let me borrow one for a few days we can do that
I am going to test with another vpn connection using a 192.168 or 172.16 etc. ip scope and see if it works with wap.cingular getting a 10.x.x.x address.
Anyways, thats it for now. I'll post again after the vpn test with the different scope.
Thanks,
-J
Today I setup a vpn server with a 192.168.x.x scope. Using wap.cingular i was able to connect to the vpn and hosts within the vpn.
I tried again to connect to the 10.x.x.x vpn and try to edit the routing table using the PocketLan but each time I try to edit something it returns an error.
I'll have to try to find another utility or see if there a way to edit the routing table.
I'm hoping theres a way to change the default route for the 10.x network.
Here's some of the info when connecting over a wap.cingular connection
ip: 10.67.x.x
gateway: 10.67.x.x ( same as ip address )
subnet mask: 255.0.0.0/8
DNS: 66.209.10.201, 66.102.163.231
WINS: 10.11.12.13, 10.11.12.14 ( kind of hard to imagine any reason for wins entries? 10-11-12-13 seems like they may just be fake address. I dont know how window mobile does it's resolution, but that doesnt seem like it would be in the customers interest to be pointed to non-existant wins, if thats what they are. This may just be place holder entries for the PocketLAN software?)
Here's some of the info when connecting over a isp.cingular connection
ip: 166.128.x.x
gateway: 166.128.x.x ( same as ip address )
subnet mask: 255.255.0.0/16
DNS: 209.183.48.11, 208.183.48.10
WINS: 10.11.12.13, 10.11.12.14 ( same comments as before )
See Arin Whois for this netblock
OrgName: Service Provider Corporation
OrgID: SPC-10
Address: 442 Route 202-206 North
Address: # 485
City: Bedminster
StateProv: NJ
PostalCode: 07921-0523
Country: US
NetRange: 166.128.0.0 - 166.255.255.255
CIDR: 166.128.0.0/9
NetName: NETBLK-CDPD-B
NetHandle: NET-166-128-0-0-1
Parent: NET-166-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Assignment
NameServer: NS1.WIRELESSDATASPCO.ORG
NameServer: NS.CDPDSPCO.ORG
Comment:
RegDate: 1993-07-09
Updated: 2005-01-07
RTechHandle: WDSPC-ARIN
RTechName: WDSPCo Helpdesk
RTechPhone: +1-215-489-7599
RTechEmail: [email protected]
OrgTechHandle: WDSPC-ARIN
OrgTechName: WDSPCo Helpdesk
OrgTechPhone: +1-215-489-7599
OrgTechEmail: [email protected]
# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2007-11-02 19:10
# Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.
I just thought of testing tracreroutes form both isp and wap.cingular. It does then show the problem with the ip information when trying to route.
When using the tilt though at first, none of this seemed possible at the time ( as I thought I was going a little nuts ) since the url exceptions never seem to attempt to connect to the vpn at all. As if the exceptions were ignored when using anything except WIFI.
Thats it for now. Post something new later.
-J
jakedahs,
Very informative. Looks like its' been a few weeks. New insights?
Best,
Things are still working good with the kaiser and the isp.cingular. I haven't come across another ATT Tilt again to test it out again. Any other things you can think to test to put on this forum?
Thanks,
-J
LOL! I'm so far behind, I don't have a clue.
Tilt and VPN PPTP
jakedahs said:
I called ATT yesterday early afternoon. At that point the CSR was a proxy for the tech dept and told me to call HTC. I contacted HTC tech support and they were convinced it was an att softwae problem since the url exceptions worked correctly over wifi.
I called back ATT last night, got a csr who xfer me to a tech rep. He walked through the steps and provisioned isp.cingular apn to see if that would work. It did not. He then sent me to advanced network services where I got someone who definately was either not having a good night or had no intention of actually working that night. After his xfer to a bad extension, I called back to a csr, who then semi-understood the situation ( she was actually excellent help at the time for not being a tech person ) She put me with another advanced network services tech ( the first time she called advanced tech services she was hungup on by the same "Steve" I had encounted a few minutes earlier. Nice work Steve) who walked through the settings a few times, and then suggested I try another tilt at an att store.
Unfortunately it seems as though noone I've talked to yet has a grasp on url exceptions or what a vpn is? Noone from ATT or HTC seems to understand that its the software that's not trying to even attempt to connect to the vpn. I would be fine if it was my problem, vpn wise. I'm sure they're just doing their jobs but it's a little frustrating to pay $550 for a phone to have it no do something your other htc phone was doing last week. Anyways thats where I'm at now. I will try to go to an att store tonight and see if it works on another phone. I'm curious to know if anyone with the regular kaiser ( with the front camera ) is having a similar problem.
-J
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I too am having issues with my Tilt and VPN. So when I got the Tilt 10 days ago, I had a blackberry 8300 (Curve), when i left the store they had me on the same BlackBerry Data plan. The VPN worked fine - Perfectly in fact. A few days later when I questioned why I was still using a blackberry plan the CSR at AT&T said I should be on a PDA data plan and changed my service. After that the VPN stopped working. I contacted AT&T chat support and also called their complex data device support department and after changing a bunch of settings on the phone they finally gave up and said they could not support the VPN option. Nice Huh?
When I get home I am going to try connecting over WiFi and trying the VPN. This should tell me if the routing / VPN issue is related to traffic over AT&T or if there is something wrong with the phone.
Additionally, when the VPN worked it used to show a " balloon status " telling me VPN was connecting. Now it no longer does that. Even if I do force the VPN to connect and then try to use the connection is disconnects immediately.
I'm guessing you're going to have the same result. If you'd like we can run through some tests using different scopes of vpn's. I'd be interested in trying the tilt again since I know the kaiser I have works ok and I'm not crazy
VPN
jakedahs said:
I'm guessing you're going to have the same result. If you'd like we can run through some tests using different scopes of vpn's. I'd be interested in trying the tilt again since I know the kaiser I have works ok and I'm not crazy
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What kind of tests were you thinking?
wap.cingular - isp.cingular / netowrk settings
jakedahs said:
I ordered htc kaiser, had it shipped opened it, configured, and the results were.....
it would use work exceptions as it should, dialing the vpn when using PIE and calling trying to access a host in the exceptions list.
It did not however want to connect to the host even after establishing a connection with the vpn server.
I dont know why, but I thought of checking the ip address with PocketLan on the gprs interface. The ip address was a 10.x.x.x but the kicker was the subnet mask using 255.0.0.0. That may cause a problem with routing as my vpn tunnel is not a full 10/8 but still a 10/16. Anyway I decided to try the online tech chat and spoke with "Marcus"
I asked if there had been any changes in the last month or so on as far as ip address scopes using wap.cingular He said yes. I'm still not sure if that was actually the case or not . I went ahead and upgraded to the pda connect unlimited to use the isp.cingular, as the "pda personal max" just uses wap.cingular.
I had to connect several times with the isp.cingular to have the connection get a public ip address rather than a nat'd 10.x.x.x. It DOES now work properly with url exceptions, connecting the vpn, the whole ball of wax with isp.cingular
Unfortunately I had already returned the ATT Tilt so I dont have any way to test if it was the att software causing it or not. If anyone would like to let me borrow one for a few days we can do that
I am going to test with another vpn connection using a 192.168 or 172.16 etc. ip scope and see if it works with wap.cingular getting a 10.x.x.x address.
Anyways, thats it for now. I'll post again after the vpn test with the different scope.
Thanks,
-J
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Since they had me change my plan and settings around I called and confirmed that I now have the PDA Connect Unlimited plan. However, in the phone's connection settings what should the two network and subsequent individual network setting be? Mine was set to Media Net and Media Net.
I tried setting it to ATT ISP but it still did not work.
I just use isp.cingular all the time. Have you created work url exceptions for your vpn connection? The problem I was having when I had the tilt is even though I had the exceptions it would never attempt to dial the vpn when going to a web site on the vpn network. I'm thinking it may have been ATT that cripled the phone somewhat. The regular HTC Kaiser I have now works fine.
VPN - TILT
So I confirmed that if I use my WiFi connection the VPN works perfectly.
There is some issue with routing over AT&T data network. I tried chatting with their online chat support and they could not give me the settings I needed. It was clearly beyond their scope of knowledge. I will try calling their complex data support department to see if I can get the right settings.
How can a company offer data services and not understand their own network?
Vpn - Tilt - Settings
I found this posting at the cingular.com forum.
Since I need to call tomorrow to confirm my provisioning and my data plan subscription I cannot tell if they will work but I thought I would make the info public.
Here's what I've done to VPN using L2TP successfully... (someone else)
- Have PDA Unlimited Plan
- Call to have your account "provisioned" to use isp.cingular
- Create a new connection using the isp.cingular settings
- Configure device to always use that connection
- Create a new VPN connection
- Import appropriate certificates (if necessary)
- Disable (preferably remove) Proxy settings in Registry
- Create an Exception list for Intranet addresses
- Configure device networks to use isp.cingular for Internet access and vpn for 'Your Work/Intranet' network
One thing I have noticed is that if I let the device connect automagically to VPN, it will disconnect after a short period of inactivity. If I manually/force connect to VPN, it stays that way until I disconnect session.
I can connect either via 3G or Edge with no issues/problems.
VPN Access over anything on the tilt would be nice
I am unable to either one of my 2 vpn's using any connection configuration. I It seems like it wants to connect but then gives me an error msg telling me to check username and password.
Can anyone shed anylite what I'm doing wrong?
Tilt Vpn over Edge
With a little patience i figured it out! if you connect to your VPN first and then go to IE it will disconnect you. But if you go to IE, Opera, whatever first and then go to the address that you have in your exception list the tilt will connect to MediaNet and then connect to your VPN server and work!
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so going to alaska to work for 3 months with my dad and brother. Brother says he cannot use his HTC HD2 up there with T-mobiles network so they will allow us to get unlock codes for them and then we will use AT&T's Unlimited talk and text but we would like to see if there is a way to use the Wifi on our phones to surf the web on either browsers. We would be doing small things like checking our email and bank accounts.
Any help would be appricatied
rlacsamana1989 said:
so going to alaska to work for 3 months with my dad and brother. Brother says he cannot use his HTC HD2 up there with T-mobiles network so they will allow us to get unlock codes for them and then we will use AT&T's Unlimited talk and text but we would like to see if there is a way to use the Wifi on our phones to surf the web on either browsers. We would be doing small things like checking our email and bank accounts.
Any help would be appricatied
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Absolutely, as long as you're within range of a wifi network that you have access to (i.e. one at your home/office or a public access point like starbucks, stc). You don't have to have a data plan to use the wifi, if that's what you're wondering
Another thing to remember if you have a nationwide plan with TMO using other towers is usually not a problem.
At home I use an AT&T tower about 30% of the time, I live in the boonies , so a nationwide plan has no roaming charges no matter who's tower you are using ...
watcher64 said:
Another thing to remember if you have a nationwide plan with TMO using other towers is usually not a problem.
At home I use an AT&T tower about 30% of the time, I live in the boonies , so a nationwide plan has no roaming charges no matter who's tower you are using ...
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haha I wish that it would even get a bit of service. Brother is already there and he says he can't even make a call without losing service. T-Mobile said they will suspend service for 3 months or how ever long it takes and will add it to our 2 year contract.
And so he trys using Wifi which the building he stays in has and when he goes into opera or internet explorer he gets an error, trying to find the error from him and will post. Does anybody know if their is settings that need to be changed. He is checking this by turning off the phone radio and only connecting to wifi. He does not want to be charged extra by AT&T, thanks for your help.
we do have custom roms on our HD2's. FYI
EDIT:Error for Opera Could not locate remote server
You tried to access the address http://www.htc.com/ which is currrently unavailable. Please make sure that the web address (URL) is correctly spelled and punctuated, then try reloading the page.
rlacsamana1989 said:
haha I wish that it would even get a bit of service. Brother is already there and he says he can't even make a call without losing service. T-Mobile said they will suspend service for 3 months or how ever long it takes and will add it to our 2 year contract.
And so he trys using Wifi which the building he stays in has and when he goes into opera or internet explorer he gets an error, trying to find the error from him and will post. Does anybody know if their is settings that need to be changed. He is checking this by turning off the phone radio and only connecting to wifi. He does not want to be charged extra by AT&T, thanks for your help.
we do have custom roms on our HD2's. FYI
EDIT:Error for Opera Could not locate remote server
You tried to access the address http://www.htc.com/ which is currrently unavailable. Please make sure that the web address (URL) is correctly spelled and punctuated, then try reloading the page.
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Sounds like the phone is not getting everything it needs from the access point, some type of misconfiguration, needs to make sure he is getting and IP address , gateway and DNS servers .... should browse over wifi without using the phone radio with no problem, do it all the time at home ...
But if you are just going to be web browsing, turning off the phone radio does save some battery ...
watcher64 said:
Sounds like the phone is not getting everything it needs from the access point, some type of misconfiguration, needs to make sure he is getting and IP address , gateway and DNS servers .... should browse over wifi without using the phone radio with no problem, do it all the time at home ...
But if you are just going to be web browsing, turning off the phone radio does save some battery ...
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So I basically found out that the network adapters were set to manual config and I should set them to automatic. Which I did and was able to connect to recieve my mail and go on the web via wifi with radio turned off but this is at my home which is my belkin.
I then tried calling him and having him set it up (he's not so tech savy) and he was connected to linksys and it still gave him the errors, He is going to the office of the company he works for to see if he can get the password for the other wifi network that is on the list. He sees people on their laptops browsing internet. So maybe i'll just buy a little Netbook for going up there.
Thanks for all your help you guys.
I know that this thread will probably be over in approximately 3 posts, but I figured this was the place to ask to get a good answer.
I am part of staff for a site that uses my IP to enable staff functions. These functions are set to the IP I'm on. However, it never works considering my IP constantly changes when I'm on the T-Mobile network, and I do not have access to wifi. Is there any possible way at all, to be able to make this work, either from my N1, or on my PC using my N1 as a 3G hotspot? I'm not all that knowledgeable about networking, but I'm thinking there has to be some possible way to make this work somehow. Maybe I'm wrong and it is one of the impossible things to do on a cell network.
Thanks for any help.
how often does it change ? is the running at home or the pc u are tethering with it ? are you using a 3g network service for a server
Every couple minutes at least. One minute it's for example, something like 208.54.27.50 and in a matter of 5 minutes the last two digits could be changed. I use the 3G hotspot at home and there's no difference from that and using the phone's browser itself. I do not use T-Mobile 3G to operate any servers.
If it is via your provider you have no control over it changing as they assign you a dynamic IP. If you were at home you could set it to a static local IP (Over WiFi) but outside your LAN on T-Mobile's WAN you have no control over DHCP
All I use for internet access on the go and at home is the 3G hotspot that I get from my phone. Would I need an actual Wifi connection from an ISP other than T-Mobile to set it to a static local IP?
looks like that just cant be done.. either ur site changes ur auth to id pw based one(atleast in ur case)
or ..
if its a job of just checking somthing, u can find a friend or family member with a 24/7 online pc(with a a static ip) and just do the job thru a remote desktop connection
All right guys. Thanks. Very much appreciate your thoughts and for not flaming me due to an obvious answer. Thank you again.
My Xoom usually disconnects the VPN immediately after opening any file from an SMB Share using ES File Explorer. I preferred Astro but the SMB addon doesn't work with Honeycomb yet. A variation of different vpn clients all do the same, as soon as data is done being transferred from a single download, the VPN will disconnect.
Is there a workaround for this? It would be great to only have the VPN connect when resources on the network were accessed or written.
I haven't found a workaround or solution to keep the VPN up and stable.
(btw, this is a typical MS 2008 PPTP on a Windows Domain)
At the moment, I'm having to reconnect after every file transfer- again, the wireless network doesn't seem to make a difference (although the 3g connection is obviously poor)
I've done a little troubleshooting on this in the last few days using the magic of wireshark. MS PPTP Server, makes the connection and then drops after SMB traffic is attempted, as well any website will not load, and no email / communication will work.
I believe this fully involves a Default Gateway setting on the Xoom, being it's a client-side setting and the Xoom doesn't appear allow that option to be changed (silly that it's missing, imo).
When I make a connection, Verizon's firewall policies see a foreign IP return traffic at some point on their network and blocks the transmission completely, eventually causing PPTP to timeout.
Here's a good read on how to get around the restriction:
http://jbenisek.wordpress.com/2010/10/05/android-2-1-and-2-2-vpn-pptp-over-verizon/
I myself have been on the phone this morning regarding this issue, I'm up to about a 3rd level of tech support and he is trying to tell me 'nothing is blocked at all on the Verizon network'...
I'm awaiting a call back now... at which I'll try to show him the above site/resource and maybe he'll move me to an unrestricted IP block. We bought 3 Xooms with the intention of working remotely in the field using PPTP- 4 more coming soon---
At this point, I'm still tempted to go back to Sprint and just wait on their Xoom release.
*btw, you can verify the above by tethering to the Xoom and changing your default gateway on a laptop/pc, the connection will work fine.
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AH-HAH!
And more info;
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4706
Apparently this is a known issue.
Encrypted PPTP is broken on Android: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4706
I've posted about this problem in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=992876
I've tried it on every version of Android since 2.1. I tried it with my Xoom on 3.0 and the problem remains. It appears to be a pretty low priority for Google.
sangreal06 said:
Encrypted PPTP is broken on Android: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4706
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Turned off encryption on the server and all was well. I can't believe google let that slide... !?
I guess I'll transition to a L2TP VPN...
Hey, I was hoping I could get some help with this. I must be doing something wrong because I've spent a ridiculous amount of time on this project and have nothing to show for it.
I want to run a mobile hotspot on my phone, but not nearly enough to justify paying Verizon an extra $30/month for tethering. I'd only use it a few times a month and wouldn't push a lot of data thru, plus I'm paying them for an "unlimited" data plan - I won't get into that, you know where I'm coming from. I know they probably won't do anything about it since I'm using it so little, but I want to add an extra layer of security via an SSH tunnel or a VPN. I'm sure they just have to run a very basic report on their system to catch somebody who's tethering, and who knows when some manager will tell them to run it on every user vs just the high bandwidth ones? They could force me onto a more expensive plan, disable my account, throttle my connection, or just block any port an Android phone doesn't normally use, and they could do all that automatically pretty easily. If all my tethering data is encrypted they'd have to do some actual work to prove I'm tethering and probably won't think it's worth their time.
I installed OpenSSH on my home PC, forwarded some ports, and put the SSHTunnel app on my phone and it works great. It seamlessly moves all traffic over my SSH tunnel, except for the mobile hotspot. Which was kind of the point of the whole exercise! I looked all over the place but could not find a way to resolve this.
Next I looked at setting up a VPN so I loaded TomatoVPN on my router. The default VPN (OpenVPN) option for that firmware is IPSec with a CA certificate, so I went about setting that up. Apparently the default Android VPN client doesn't work well with IPSec because I can't get it to work - it keeps prompting me for a username and password, but it won't accept my router's admin credentials. None of the tutorials mention that prompt and I can't get around it. I messed around with an IPSec PSK VPN but couldn't get Android to connect to that either.
I looked into PPTP a bit but they say it's not supported by Linksys or OpenWRT, and from my experience Tomato doesn't appear to work with it either. I was going to put a PPTP server on my PC but saw somewhere that many routers can't forward PPTP requests from a WAN into the LAN.
So I went back to the IPSec approach, figuring the problem is with the Android client. I tried putting OpenVPN on my phone, but got stuck where I have to register a tun.ko file using the terminal. I don't even know if I found the right tun.ko. Then I realized I was trying to install an app to configure an app that installs another app and maybe I wasn't going about this the right way.
Does anybody have any advice? How should I approach this?
Here's what I'm using
Phone: Rooted HTC Thunderbolt
Carrier: Verizon
Ugh, looks like Verizon is 1 step ahead of me:
jbenisek.wordpress.com/2010/10/05/android-2-1-and-2-2-vpn-pptp-over-verizon/
Well, that sucks.
Hey all. I recently purchased a Verizon Samsung Galaxy S4 32GB and have really enjoyed it. Today I ran into my first issue, and boy its a doozy. Apparently I'm not able to make a solid connection to FTP servers using Active FTP. If I switch to passive, everything connects fine. When I switch to Active, it connects to the FTP server, but is not able to retrieve the directory listing (Filezilla error on laptop) and on my phone it states "425 Could not open data connection to port 48891:Connection timed out". This is replicated on my laptop (Through Mobile Hotspot) and on an ftp client on my phone. I work in IT and use my mobile hotspot as an external network when we need to rebuff a vendor's claims that our network is the issue (I'm sure those of you in IT also can appreciate the pain of having a vendor blindly blame your network instead of fixing their own problems).
Verizon claims that it does not block any ports. Samsung has stated that they do not support this issue, but I talked the supervisor into filing an engineer report (If that will even do anything) even though I won't hear back from them regarding this. So I am hoping I can get some help from the best android community out there!!!
Has anyone else tried to make an active FTP connection from a Verizon S4?
Would anyone be willing to give it a try?
UPDATE:
Well the Verizon guy did some testing for me (Kudos to VZW). They dont block ports, but they also don't forward the return connection for Active FTP. If anyone else wants to give it a try and let me know if it works for other providers, it would be appreciated. I may have to just fork out $$$ for a Public IP on our VZW Jetpack.
Remember that most carriers use CGN (Carrier-grade NAT) on their network, specially for mobile phones. While CGN is supposed to be stateful, Verizon probably has a broken implementation as it doesn't redirect a port to your private IP (something done in Linux by using the conntrack_ftp module). Anyway, using non-passive FTP is almost always a bad idea if you don't have a public IP. Sticking to passive is your better option.
I wish that was possible unfortunately the vendor is using active FTP for his application. I am testing to see if the internal network is the cause of the connection problems we've had. To get him to move over to passive since it is better