# Private or public address on Nova Data interface?

**URL:** <https://community.na.baicells.com/t/private-or-public-address-on-nova-data-interface/199>\
**Category:** Nova\
**Created:** [January 15, 2017, 3:54am UTC](https://community.na.baicells.com/t/private-or-public-address-on-nova-data-interface/199 "2017-01-15T03:54:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![NCN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b19c9b/32.png) [@NCN](https://community.na.baicells.com/u/NCN)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 3:54am UTC](https://community.na.baicells.com/t/private-or-public-address-on-nova-data-interface/199/1 "2017-01-15T03:54:00Z")

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We installed our first Nova base station today and have it connected to a private NATed connection to the internet , It dose not connect to the Cloud core EPC , do I need to assign a public IP to station ?

Thanks

Rob

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**Author:** ![tangweizhuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@tangweizhuo](https://community.na.baicells.com/u/tangweizhuo)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2017, 5:54am UTC](https://community.na.baicells.com/t/private-or-public-address-on-nova-data-interface/199/2 "2017-03-29T05:54:26Z")

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Public IP is not a must, private ip that can access internet shall be fine. so please make sure the private ip that the eNB got can access the cloud core EPC.