Exposing a CC3000 to the public Internet

[Barry914]

Any advice on the simplest/safest way to make a CC3000 server-based app reachable from outside my LAN? I'm assuming simple and safe are pretty much mutually exclusive. I guess my basic choices are NAT/port forwarding and creating a DMZ, but I'm not really sure where to start the research.

[Franklin97355]

Setting up port forwarding or DMZ are functions of your router and should be in the documentation for it or in the router management pages of the router itself.

[adafruit_support_mike]

Do you have a block of externally visible IP addresses?

If you have a regular DSL connection you'll have a publically visible IP address, but it will change every time you reconnect. Your ISP may also change it periodically to keep people from hosting file sharing sites.

[Barry914]

I have a cable modem with a dynamically allocated IP, but it hasn't changed in at least the last year. I would be the only person (hopefully) accessing the app, so I'm not that concerned about the IP changing out from under me. I do have documentation on how to set up a DMZ but I don't know if that's what I want to do.

[Franklin97355]

This might help https://www.techsoupforlibraries.org/bo ... t/html/592 also Google for "consequences of setting up a DMZ" for more.