Re: Sharing Pi with node-red and Softether Server
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Thanks for the reply Mick
We currently have four owners/QTHs sharing the credentials of six radios. I currently have five Pis running dashboards and tailscale. One location the owner is always around to handle any lightning potential but the others are not and depend on the lightning monitoring as one of the tools they use. Tailscale does not require any port forwarding and I think the other owners are just operators who do not actually look at the dashboards.
The sites all use Xfinity and modem/router is leased. Although I could place the gateways in bridge mode I would have to purchase two of the routers and convince two others to do the same.?
Softether requires three ports to be opened.
During my testing of the Softether I found it pretty snappy when used as a stndalone server running on a Pi 5. I attempted to put the bridge Softether on another location. The goal qwas to get to a user administered solution and eliminate Smartlink.?
Strange things happened when I added the bridge and my ability to get to unregistered radios was inconsistent.?
The killer was I would need another Pi for each Maestro that would run Softether and provide a LAN for the Maestro. At least I haven't come across a way for a Maestro to open a VPN connection.
In the meantime thanks Mick for the info on Ubiquity. And it seems Alan Gordan N7AKG, creater of the control system, is working on a cloud based system that may provide a solution for us.
73, Marty
On Sunday, May 25, 2025 at 08:14:44 AM CDT, Mick , W8BE via groups.io <w8bea2b2c2@...> wrote:
Marty,
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I briefly perused the documentation and I assume you would run the server on the pi and then the client software on your laptop, etc. ? I think from a process standpoint running the vpn server on the pi should not be an issue at all as long as you run it on a pi4/5. I wonder if running on a device inside your network would expose other devices to potential threats. Do you just use a port forward to the Pi VPN server for the tunnel to work?
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?I just recently cutover to a Ubiquity gateway and it has a built in vpn (Wireguard, OpenVPN , and L2TP).? I use the Wireguard and I have been impressed with how easy it is to setup and I like the fact that the gateway runs the vpn server so no port forwarding to a device inside my network.? ?
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