Afrihost phone home requirements
This platform provides ways to connect to public services on your private
home IP address. You can use this service if all of the following apply:
- You are an Afrihost fibre client
- You have some device on your home network that you need to connect to (e.g. security system)
- Your service has a private IP address (e.g. 100.99.98.97)
- For PPTP or forwarding: You have authentication details (which you can
change in clientzone, if you need to). Specifically, you need the
connectivity user name, which different to the e-mail address that you
use to log in to clientzone.
- You are not on the Afrihost network when you want to phone home. (On
the Afrihost network, you can connect directly to your router.)
NAT64 phone home
If you have a private IP address at home, and a IPv6-capable connection, you
can connect to your home system directly. IP6 address in the subnet
2c0f:f4c0:6::/96 are forwarded to their equivalent IP4 address.
Virtual phone home
This method causes your home router's private IP to appear at a shared
virtual address (for the IP address you are connecting from only).
Click here to connect.
PPTP phone home
With this method, you use your operating system PPTP system (point to point
tunneling protocol) to make a connection, and over that connection you can reach
your home network.
Click here for details.
