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End to end networking via 4G

Oct 3, 2018 12:17PM PDT

VZW has a product called SmartHub. Plug your devices into the hub and get 4G access in their service area. Great. Well, we need to plug in static ip devices to these hubs, remotely located, so they can all talk to each other.
The hubs are DHCP. So how do I get end to end static IP througput with 4G dhcp devices in-between?

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We solved this.
Oct 3, 2018 12:47PM PDT

With a third service. Go ahead and deploy your devices but in our system we had the devices register with our CUSTOM (sorry, it's not for sale but I will share the basics) SERVER that would register what IP the device is called and it's IP to be reached at.

Then when another device needed to talk to another device it would ask this server for the device and it's IP.

Only confusing to new networkers so far.

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Oct 3, 2018 1:05PM PDT

you're right...confusing.

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Only at first.
Oct 3, 2018 3:15PM PDT

It's just like a phonebook. Devices check in when they power up in this server so when devices need to message each other they ask this server "What address is device #54 at?" The server tells the device and then the device can talk directly with #54.

New designers often try to put in the IP addresses into the devices and learn quickly why that is never done.