# Oil & Gas Ideas

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [February 24, 2020, 9:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/oil-gas-ideas/32556 "2020-02-24T21:18:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 11:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/oil-gas-ideas/32556/29 "2020-03-07T23:11:50Z")

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A while ago I added some info on this post on how I go about it.

Took a bit of time to set it up with the pi having 3 ip addresses and writing the IP tables and modifying the various code. Now I have the pi image saved it’s simple to create a new device.

> [@Ignition cloud/VPN network](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-cloud-vpn-network/30297):
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> I would like to install ignition in the cloud to access remote pumping stations and a few other IIOT applications. I’m having trouble figuring out a suitable VPN infrastructure that will allow access to the PLCs via gateway. The PLCs share the same IPs so the gateway will have to have NAT or something. Then I will have to try to address the PLCs IPs in Ignition, I don’t know how to get around this since the PLCs will share the same IP. I am using s7-1200 and there is no way to change ports and c…

It may help someone, as above my system is effective but basic. I have no unmanned stations etc.

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