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

[Michael K. <mic...@ip...>]

Thanks Lonnie/Christopher

Yes we are now at the stage where our company has no choice but to roll our own and we are actively seeking to develop (and/or buy) the skills required to do so.
So Im certainly interested in recommendations for doing so.

Regards
Michael Knill


From: Lonnie Abelbeck <li...@lo...>
Date: Sunday, 13 July 2025 at 11:36 pm
To: AstLinux Developers Mailing List <ast...@li...>
Subject: Re: [Astlinux-devel] Remote access of devices behind Astlinux
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.
>
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