TMobile - No IPV4 Address - IOS 10.2 OpenVPN using IPV6?
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Apparently T-Mobile recently stopped leasing out IPV4 addresses. I am told that I need to use IPV6 protocol as VPN transport .
Has anyone else been successful in configuring IPV6 protocol as the VPN transport using latest OpenVPN client on IOS 10.2?
In this configuration, am I able to use IPV4 addresses within the IPV6 tunnel?
Any advise or tricks of the trade?
Thank you in advance…
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I am on t-mobile. And had not noticed, when I normally vpn in I am on some remote wifi network.. But I just looked and yeah when just on cell I don't see any ipv4 address. Connections to my ipv4 vpn on either tcp or udp fail..
So I fired up vpn to listen on ipv6 (I use a HE tunnel) on udp6 - used a ipv4 tunnel network and bing bang zoom connected. Just because you use ipv6 as the vpn connection does not mean you can not run ipv4 inside that..
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Thanks! I have hope. I figured that one could use IPV6 as the transport for a IPV4 network. But, it is nice that you have confirmed it. I will play around…. Thanks!!
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If you need more details on setup, just ask.. Its really just as simple as setting up your vpn to listen on your ipv6 address.
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Got it to work.. The biggest problem I had was determining the correct external IPV6 address to use as I made it more complicated on myself as I did not have my cable modem in bridge mode. But, figured it out.
Thanks again for trialing this so that I at least knew that it did work (or didn't have some sort of bug). Then I knew I just had to play around to get the right addressing and port forwarding.
Awesome!
