When I Set Up Gate, What Do innerIpAddress and outerIpAddress Refer To?

When configuring Soracom Gate, you must register a server in your private network to act as a Gate Peer. The configuration uses two types of IP addresses:

outerIpAddress

This is the physical network IP address of the Gate Peer server.

• For your Gate Peer: This is your server's static private IP address within your network environment (e.g., the private IPv4 address of an EC2 instance in an AWS VPC).
• For VPG Gate Peers: This is the IP address assigned by Soracom to the VPG's Gate Peers (typically in the 100.64.0.0/16 range).
• User Console Label: Tunnel Endpoint IP address

innerIpAddress

This is the virtual IP address assigned to the VXLAN interface used to establish the Layer 2 connection between Gate Peers.

• Your server uses this address to send packets to IoT SIM devices via the VXLAN tunnel.
• User Console Label: Device Subnet IP address

For detailed configuration steps, refer to the Gate Peer Configuration documentation.

API Response Details

When using the API to view Gate Peers, the response includes an ownedByCustomer key:

• true: The peer is in your private network.
• false: The peer is in the VPG.