On Saturday, 20 June 2020 14:48:50 BST Patrick Wigmore wrote: > Could you elaborate on what you mean by the Cert settings? Is that > something to do with the VPN software? Which VPN software did you end > up choosing anyway?! I don't remember you saying. :)
Yes. The VPN Tools create a Cert Package which users then install on their device. I decided to go with PiStrong (https://github.com/gitbls/pistrong) because PiVPN (a Pi installer for OpenVPN stopped the Captive Portal working. I'm beginning to regret this decision because it would appear that I have become the Beta Tester for the tool. The developer is very kindly helping me, but he doesn't appear to have tested installing it on a machine that has no Domain name. So I'm the guinea pig for all potential users who want to connect via their Router's WAN Address. > I've heard of mobile networks faking ping responses for whatever > reason. Maybe in hotspot mode it disables that "feature", or enables > one that blocks all pings. Either way, I wouldn't trust the mobile > network not to be tricking you with regard to pings. I can ping everything else, just not my Howe Router. > Personally my next step would be to temporarily stick some relatively > easy-to-configure server of some kind online via the home router. E.g. > a web server serving a unique web page, and then try to connect to > that via the phone hotspot. That would at least prove whether you can > connect to the home router from the Hotspot, which seems to be your > aim with pinging it. I could try that, although I could end up doing a lot of work only to learn that there's nothing wrong. I already have the Pi running the VPN Server and nginx, but the webserver is only accessible from the internal (private) network. What's the minimum needed to get something up on the Internet that would respond to a query of some kind? I've looked at various Tutorials and they all seem to be a fair bit of work. I have another Pi which could be used in place of the one running the two servers, so is there something quick and dirty just to do this test? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2020-07-07 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
