Hi everyone
I'm new on this forum. I already set up several ipcams on WiFi in the past, but it's my first 4G cam.
So I bought a 4G cam online. I first tested it on my WiFi and everything worked fine.
Next, I placed the cam outdoor (where no WiFi available) and put in the SIM card of my mobile phone operator.
In fact, the cam is acting as a MiFi-router and my mobile phone operator doesn't assign a public IP to this (they confirm this policy). So I get connection to internet, but the WAN IP is 10.x.x.x.
In this way, I can't connect remotely to my cam as I don't know its public IP.
I decided to set up a VPN. My cam only allows PPTP. I know it's not secure, but I have no choice. The VPN is meant as a way to connect rather than as a security feature.
I set up a PPTP-server on my own VPS (Debian 8.11). The PPTP-server is working fine: both a Windows computer and an Android device can connect smoothly. Internal port forwarding is working.
But the cam CANNOT connect over VPN! As I can manage all settings of the PPTP-server, I tried out dozens of combinations, but without any success!
In the logs of the PPTP-server, I find mainly:
Can anyone help me?
Thanks
Andre
I'm new on this forum. I already set up several ipcams on WiFi in the past, but it's my first 4G cam.
So I bought a 4G cam online. I first tested it on my WiFi and everything worked fine.
Next, I placed the cam outdoor (where no WiFi available) and put in the SIM card of my mobile phone operator.
In fact, the cam is acting as a MiFi-router and my mobile phone operator doesn't assign a public IP to this (they confirm this policy). So I get connection to internet, but the WAN IP is 10.x.x.x.
In this way, I can't connect remotely to my cam as I don't know its public IP.
I decided to set up a VPN. My cam only allows PPTP. I know it's not secure, but I have no choice. The VPN is meant as a way to connect rather than as a security feature.
I set up a PPTP-server on my own VPS (Debian 8.11). The PPTP-server is working fine: both a Windows computer and an Android device can connect smoothly. Internal port forwarding is working.
But the cam CANNOT connect over VPN! As I can manage all settings of the PPTP-server, I tried out dozens of combinations, but without any success!
In the logs of the PPTP-server, I find mainly:
MGR: dropped slow initial connection
MGR: Maximum of 100 connections reduced to 6, not enough IP addresses given
MGR: Manager process started
MGR: Maximum of 6 connections available
So the internet connection is working as I get connection logs on my VPS, the cam is working as I can get the live stream when I connect a computer directly to the MiFi of the cam, but how can I get the video remotely?MGR: Maximum of 100 connections reduced to 6, not enough IP addresses given
MGR: Manager process started
MGR: Maximum of 6 connections available
Can anyone help me?
Thanks
Andre