Port forwarding alternative

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Ricardo Pinto
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Hi,

Wouldn't it be nice to have an alternative to port forwarding?

I remembered this today, when I had to hard reset my ISP router, and totally forgot to reopen the ports to bOS and found myself with no access on mobile network. So no bOS, no Alexa commands to bOS etc.

In fact, there are many services that are using "P2P" services, using mechanisms to get rid of the port forwarding stuff.

The reality is that we are often hard resetting the ISP routers. Sometimes by ourselves, other times because of automatic firmware updates from the ISP. And many times we forget the port forwarding stuff.


What do you think?

Best regards

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Wojtek

Hello Luka.


Is there a solution for P2P/cloud connectivity with ComfortClick?

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ComfortClick Support

Hello,

gateway access to your bOS Servers (without any ports forwarded) is being developed by us.

Currently it's in testing stages and we're activating it to our testing users so they can connect remotely to their servers more safe, this feature will be available to everyone in the future when we have it 100% working.

Best regards.

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Paul G

Guys, though easier if bOS comes with he VPN client masked inside, there is also no need to open ports to connect fro outside of the bOS server network. Both Android and iOS come with default VPN clients, and if better options to be used, like OPENVPN, then you just download the app and set it up. I have easily set-up OpenVPN client on an iOS device, to connect to a OpenVPN server, whose behind it has the bOS server running in a separate machine, and everythign works fine. The ley question here is that is the VPN client layer is being developed on bOS that can bring more security holes than anything else for obvious reasons, ideally what should happen is for bOS to leverage in the background proven and pentested VPN clients available in the market, like OpenVPN, else there is an extra layer of security holes being introduced. 

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Kristián Vojčík

Hello, 

Is there finaly any solution to this?

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ComfortClick Support

Hello,

currently we are offering the gateway for our clients. If you want we can activate for you, but contact our sales team and arrange a gateway activation.

Best regards

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Luciano

Hello, do I need a Static public IP Addres to run this new gateway service or does it run over Dynamic IP ?

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Jürgen Jürgenson
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Hello, do I need a Static public IP Addres to run this new gateway service or does it run over Dynamic IP ?

Dynamic will work.

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Andy Gill
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Dynamic will work.

Hi Jurgen,

Are you having any problems with the gateway on 4.9.1? or is it just me?

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Jürgen Jürgenson
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Hi Jurgen,

Are you having any problems with the gateway on 4.9.1? or is it just me?

What kind of problems? I don't have any connection problems. I have some modbus problems. But not sure if its related to bOS server - i need to recheck the devices again.

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Andy Gill

Specifically the Gateway, resolved now by CC they'd carried out some updates to the Gateway.


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