I am looking for an Android router app (wired or wireless) than can do port forwarding. I have searched for a while and not found anything that can do this. I have tried using Android Wireless Tether (v2.0.5 -pre9) and Barnacle Wifi Tether, neither of which seem to be configurable enough to do this.
My setup is Sprint Evo 4G, rooted, running Fresh v. 3.3.0.1.
I would like to be able to use my phone as an internet connection for a computer that runs a specialized software that listens on TCP port 9323. I would like to be able to have my server call the IP address of my phone (it is public, and I don't care that it is dynamic), and have my phone forward the request to the computer listening on port 9323.
How can i do this?
Thanks!
im taking a wild guess this would require some severe kernel patching since even on x86 linux variants iptables is done in kernel modules...
alot of work i would imagine, especially manipulating those tables from the dalvik vm...
use Port Forwarder
hi,
I had exactly the same problem as jhenderson019. I just recently solved it by using an app called "Port Forwarder". Its in the market.
The title is self-explanatory, will it be possible to create a homebrew WiFi tethering app with the new API's of the upcoming Mango update?
Thanks everyone
I'm very interested in an answer to that question myself.
If I'm not mistaken than these things won't just be up to the API's/Apps but also to your operator.
It just happened somewhen during the last year that i.e. O2 Germany opened this feature for iPhone users. I think to remember that I read somewhere that it's blocked for most of the O2 contracts nowadays (especially those with mobile internet including a "flatrate").
I am interested if it could be achieved with the new API's. Neither BASE nor O2 block tethering in the network, O2 only blocked it on the iPhone by not allowing the setting on the device. I could tether with my Palm Pre and N95 8GB since ever with both carriers.
And I don't' think a carrier can stop you from installing a Homebrew tethering solution
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Alright, I didn't know that. Somehow the crying of all the Apple users made it sound a little worse to me
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Cyruss89 said:
The title is self-explanatory, will it be possible to create a homebrew WiFi tethering app with the new API's of the upcoming Mango update?
Thanks everyone
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It's possible to do this today, nobody has yet. I was trying to find something open source in either C# or for WinCE/WM that I could port, but never came up with something meaningful.
I'm not entirely sure whether we can connect to ad-hoc wireless networks though. I suspect it could be done over USB either way.
What do you mean with "I'm not entirely sure whether we can connect to ad-hoc wireless networks though"? I want my PC to connect to a WiFi network, not my phone.
I can already tether via USB, because I have a LG Optimus 7, thx MFG Menu ;-). Coming from a Palm Pre that's not what I want.
I'd love to help, but unfortunaly I can't code at all :-(
@Cyruss89:
What davux meant was that you have to get your phone and your laptop on the same WiFi network, and generally that means using an Ad-Hoc network. Since the phone currently can't do Ad-Hoc (so far as we know), that's one problem in the way.
An alternative approach would be to have the phone act as a WiFi Access Point (broadcast an Infrastructure network). This is possible on the PC with some tweaking, but requires OS support, unless the OS exposes the capability directly to the user. An intermediate option might be to write a native app that can tell the driver to enter this state, if it even knows how (and if there is a usable API for doing so).
Anyhow, once you've got some way for the phone and PC to talk over WiFi, there's a few more things that are needed. An app like this isn't going to work with simply turnign the phone into a USB modem (which is what the current tethering apps do). The phone will stay connected to the network itself, but it'll need to basically re-implement something like Internet Connection Sharing in Windows. This means:
* DHCP server, so the PC can get an IP address.
* DNS forwarding, so the PC can resolve domain names to IP addresses.
* Network Address Translation, so that the phone knows what packets it needs to send to the PC(s) and on what ports.
Now, the code for all of this exists, and is even available in reasonably portable open-source C (BSD can do everything we need). Getting it to work on the phone isn't going to be trivial, though. For example, it requires the ability to open a low-level type of network socket that isn't going to be available in Mango. It also will require some work to port to WinCE, unless somebody has CE code for this already.
For now, I'll keep doing what I've been doing: tether my phone to my laptop, and use the laptop's Internet Connection Sharing and WiFi to share with other machines, if necessary.
don't know if you know this but i'll post it anyway
on samsung omnia 7 is already possible even without nodo update, here is the link
@keanu20:
USB tethering is already possible on *all* WP7 phones. It also has absolutely nothing to do with this thread, which is about WiFi hotspot capability (similar in purpose but more useful and completely different in implementation).
Thanks a lot for this post GoodDayToDie! Basically this means I have to hope that MS or Nokia implement the functionality by themselves.
Hope dies last.
So this won't be in Mango.
The reason HTC were able to do it was that they included a new WiFi driver in their HTC 1.29 Firmware update for their devices. Which is being pushed out by MSFT now.
Hello all,
I am looking for a way to run my android as a wireless router (not as an access point or a tether).
I am putting together a distributed app with components running on multiple devices. It works fine when I have the Wi-Fi enabled on my android and I have a wi-fi router to connect to, but I need to run this where I won't necessarily have the wi-fi router available.
Basically, I want to run a private network using my android as both my core app, and as a wifi-router/dhcp server, without allowing devices that connect to my android to have access to the internet through my device.
I've seen many apps and threads that all cover how to use the built-in access point, or how to configure the device as a hotspot, but these all discuss tethering and how to get past the limits (or snooping) of your provider and not how to set up a private network.
Is there a way, or an existing app that will allow me to set up a private network as I describe? If not, is there something I can do within my server code to enable the Access Point and disable Tethering at the same time?
Thanks in Advance
F.F.
When using an S4 with (selinux enforcing) as a hotspot, is there any risk that a malicious webserver operator
can access the device using the carrier assigned (dynamic) ip address? If the IP is port scanned is the scan
of the device ports, ports on the pc connected to it, or the carriers server?
What type of protections (on the wan side) should be in place to properly secure an S4 with 4.3 for use as a hotspot
so the device itself can't be compromised? (assuming no 3rd party apps are installed) I assume device encryption would
not help this situation because the device has to be decrypted to run the hotspot. It's unclear samasung knox 1.0 could
provide anything useful, and I think they force packets through lookout so it slows the connection.
Hi Team!
I am super new here (and new tot he android ecosystem too!)
I recently got my first android table (Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 505 - LTE version) and successfully rooted it.
I am after a software that could allow me to hotspot my LTE/Cellular on the tablet that would not need me to alter any settings on my computers which will use the hotspot.
In the apple world (on a jailbroken device) I have used TetherMe which essentially you just turn on HotSpot on the iPhone and every device connects directly and everything magically works. (no need to set up proxies or VPNs or adjust TTLs on devices) is there anything like this in the android world (paid or free?)
Many thanks!
Bump - if anyone could give me a sort of direction?