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NAT (Forwarding) in T-Mobile Gateway
I recently signed up for T-Mobile internet, and I am VERY disappointed that I could not even forward NAT traffic to my home security system. I saw that this was discussed 7 months ago in a previous...
I've been monitoring this thread for a year or so for the same issues. In my case I needed to get my webserver to allow incoming traffic from outside T-Mobile Home Internet to preview development sites.
Long story short, if you've got a similar use case, Tailscale did the trick for me. Installed the webserver as a VM on a Synology NAS, and Tailscale has a package that can be run on DSM. I add development site subdomains to public DNS and route to the tailscale address using an A record. Then I share the webserver tailscale node with whoever I want to preview the site, they connect to tailscale, type in the domain, and it works pretty great. Won't solve all issues I know….
For local development, I use VirtualMin and configure the primary IP address as the tailscale address, and I add the local address to the site-enabled entries in Apache and my hosts file. Takes a little configuring but I plan to post some steps on how in time. I added a quick article for now on my blog. Hope this helps somebody 🤷♂️
