2012-07-10

iPad on PI

SIMDBy the wonders of modern technology my iPad is now "on my LAN" when I am out and about. I simply have one of my Data-SIMs set to relay to the FireBrick at the house which routes on to the LAN. Works a treat.

Although the iPad is not IPv6 when on the mobile network (watch this space on that one) the L2TP relay to my house is IPv6 - which is a slightly backwards world.

P.S. I cannot give it the same IP on WiFi and Data-SIM. Well, technically I can, but as the Data-SIM is a /32 route it means all traffic to it would go via mobile even when using the WiFi, which would not be good.

4 comments:

  1. No policy routing magic to have your Firebrick prefer to route to the iPad over WiFi if it's there, and via the SIM if it's not?

    Would probably involve WPA-Enterprise, and RADIUS-assigned IPs, mind...

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    1. The "if it is there" is, of course, tricky as it would have to ARP for it or ping or some such. It is one of those things I probably could engineer - FireBricks are *very* flexible like that, and can have routing based on things like pings. But I am not sure it is worth the messing about.

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    2. I was thinking that you'd use WPA-Enterprise, and thus have the AP tell you if the device was there or not.

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