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Nighthawk M1 Passthrough Mode
Hi All,
I believe the M1 supports passthrough. Am I right in saying that when setup, the dynamically assigned IP from the telstra carrier in this case, would be allocated to the DHCP Client int...
Hi,
When you enbale IP passthrough on the MR1100, you indeed get the dynamically assigned IP from your carrier on the device connected to the MR1100.
Unfortunatelly, most carriers are doing CGNAT (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT). In this case, you are getting a private IP address from your carrier and you won't be able to do port forwarding to access services hosted at home. Some carriers have an option to get a public IP address.
You have a few options to overcome CGNAT, search on Google https://www.google.com/search?q=orvercoming+CGNAT. This invloves opening a tunnel from your home hosted computer to a server on the internet with a public IP address. You can use a VPS with OpenVPN Server for that, or any VPN services that offer such an option, o for free (for one random url to access one single port) using ngrok.