Re: [Astlinux-devel] Remote access of devices behind Astlinux

[David K. <da...@ke...>]

Lonnie,
  And this begs the question... what would it take to rebase Astlinux on
top of current buildroot.  I mean, really, *how hard can it be?*

Excuse me while I duck to avoid incoming projectiles.

David

On Sun, Jul 13, 2025 at 10:05 AM Lonnie Abelbeck <li...@lo...>
wrote:

> Hi Michael,
>
> Christopher (Cadillac Kid) has good info for you.
>
> If I were in your shoes Michael, rolling your own solution from either a
> Debian base or the latest Buildroot seems much better than trying to start
> with the very old Buildroot snapshot AstLinux is based on.  While we have
> maintained the old Buildroot by backporting from upstream over time, this
> is a lot to learn and understand if you are just getting started with
> building custom images.
>
> Lonnie
>
>
> > On Jul 12, 2025, at 7:06 AM, The Cadillac Kid via Astlinux-devel <
> ast...@li...> wrote:
> >
> > we use VPN access for many of our sites..  (granted we rolled our own
> starting about 15 years ago).. we run Mikrotik Hex lites (or other
> variants) in front of our asterisk servers and set up VPN access for
> RMATS..  sites which they wont give us a public IP, we hae a site-to-site
> connection where we can log in to our NOC and remotely access devices on
> the system..  we had issues using straight proxy as grandstream gateways
> werent happy with the oroxy, their web GUI does some wierd stuff.
> >
> > we had broken away from the "one box does it all" setup that astlinux
> provides as we started doing larger sites and asking our systems to do more
> and more.. thus why the MT out front. we have several 3000+ line systems
> out there.. which are also handling communications for hotel PMS, cost
> accounting, etc..
> >
> > On Friday, July 11, 2025 at 10:13:55 PM EDT, Michael Knill <
> mic...@ip...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi All
> >
> > I currently connect to devices behind Astlinux (mainly IP Phones) using
> SSH Tunnelling. This works well but is clunky and not easily scalable (I am
> looking at SSH Certificate Authentication which will be an improvement).
> > I really only need to connect to a directly accessible IP Phone via
> Astlinux using HTTP/S via some proxy mechanism.
> > Does anyone have any ideas? Note that it does not necessarily need to be
> existing Astlinux functionality as we are experimenting with rolling our
> own.
> >
> > Thanks so much.
> >
> > Regards
> >
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