On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 04:32:31PM +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: [ 8< ]
Once connected, openSUSE needs to get on the network. I would imagine that a telephone that supports tethering handles the IP address assigned to the computer? How it gets the address is of no concern. The computer will get an address. Right?
Once it has the address, should it be possible, knowing the IP address, to access the computer from the outside world? The whole discussion here assumes that this is possible. Perhaps that is controlled by the telephone? Or the local phone company?
Most mobile network providers use address spaces from the ranges as defined in RFC 1918.
If the IP address could be accessed, I guess the next step might be to register it with a dynamic DNS service so it can be know to us. Any suggestions on a DNS service?
And then the name of your mobile host gets resolved for example to 10.10.4.6 and you wonder why you can't reach it. Use openvpn and to make the certificate handling easy use the YaST CA management tool.
This will be used rather seldom. Mainly in times of difficulty or support. I could even consider a stupid solution where the system copies a file to a known IP address that we could look at.
Instead of wasting your time with such a homegrown and very likely non working approach I would use openvpn. Lars -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany