Symmetric NAT issue

Issues and Bugs
#1

Hi guys,

After onboarding once on saturday, I wanted to onboard today again.

I hoped to try to use same address given before.

But I have been told to do everything from the beggining again.
Anyway Intried to do the onboarding again in the terminal, but this time I had a trouble with NAT since it says it is symmetric. (Attached immage)
Beginner here, so do not know what NAT is. Apparently something related with the router or the connection.

However I haven’t touched anything from saturday’s onboarding regardin my connection or my router.

Is there anyway around it?

Many thanks!!

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#2

Hi @DrFERRUM ,
The NAT type of your network is something that is usually determined by your ISP. It can usually change and that is not a configuration issue. One thing you can try is to connect to a different network if possible and try to onboard your device. Maybe that network will be of a different NAT type.

#3

Hi @Tewodros ok! I’ll try that.

If not, is ther somethig I can do to reversibly change the NaT type?

Cheers

#4

I don’t think there is something you can do to reverse the change but you can also try to connect to a VPN and hopefully you will be tunneled through a permissive NAT.

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#5

Thanks a lot! I’ll try that.

#6

Hi @Tewodros ! I got it to work thanks to VPN…

However and even if it seems.I am up and running, now when I go to nomad, it says error.

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#7

I did the config command again and now it says this

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#8

@Tewodros @dagim, could anyone benso kind as to at least confirm reading of the new issue?

Thanks a lot!

#9

I read it, but I don’t think I know how to fix the problem, sorry

#10

@DrFERRUM Sorry for not replying sooner. Maybe the issue is related to the use of VPN so can you try using 127.0.0.1:4646 instead of localhost.

#11

Thanks @Tewodros !! That worked indeed!! :clap::clap::clap:

#12

@Tewodros I was partially able to onboard a few weeks back, now I am getting “Sorry we’re not able to onboard your device as the platform currently doesn’t support Symmetric NAT”, I am running ubuntu on VM.

#13

Did you download and install the new version 0.1.2? Video about that on the NuNet Videos Guides thread

#14

Thanks Mac for the video, I just watched it and followed through, unfortunately the error still persists

#15

The developers don’t post on here often, but they are working hard to fix bugs so maybe the next new version they release will fix your problem

#16

Hi @nons the platform doesn’t currently support symmetric nat and it is usually due to the network you’re connected to. You can try changing to a different network or you can also try using a VPN and hopefully you will be tunneled through a permissive NAT.

#17

Thanks @Tewodros , would the platform support symmetric NAT during the public alpha release? I have tried 2 networks, still the same result , I would try VPN and give an update.

#18

@nons I had to install a VPN. I used Windscribe.

#19

Lots of people in the community asked for Raspberry Pi and VM support and they added it, so I think they will support symmetric NAT at some point (disclaimer: I don’t even know what symmetric NAT is)

#20

@MacForaday I appreciate your help man.