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Remote (over WAN) access without VPN?
Michael Hojnowski
Member
Hiya. It seems threads on this topic are over two years old. I'm just checking to see if there are new developments. I purchased a Flex 6400 for use in a remote shack. I had intended for myself and other club members to access it via clients on machines across the WAN. I was stunned to find that it doesn't appear to be supported. Launching the SmartSDR client, it doesn't appear all that "smart", as it offers me no way to enter an IP address to reach the radio. The "recent" threads, from two+ years ago, had suggestions for setting up a VPN to do this. Do I really need to set up a VPN tunnel and put my club members through all that nonsense to use this radio remotely?
Thanks for any suggestions,
Mike / KD2EAT
Advisor, Amateur Radio Club at Cornell / W2CXM
Thanks for any suggestions,
Mike / KD2EAT
Advisor, Amateur Radio Club at Cornell / W2CXM
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I can’t seem to access RemoteHams.com — but I did find this link that was accessible and seems to talk about the same remote service: http://www.n8mdp.com/remotehams_pcr.php0
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Thanks, Rick. I think smartlink is the secret sauce I was looking for. I dunno. It seems like they've spent a lot of effort to make an easy thing hard, here. I would rather just be able to figure out the IP of the radio and key it into the client. Call me old school. lol
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By doing that it potentially opens your radio to hackers. SmartLink prevents unauthorized access to your radio by brokering the connection.
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Ya, I intend to set up a "Club" userid and share the password to club members.
Regarding "opening the radio to hackers", I'm a software engineer by trade. It's just a matter of implementation. They've encrypted the connection to the radio, meaning there are keys stored there anyway. If they're storing security keys to talk to the "mothership' for authentication, there's no reason the radio can't store keys/passwords to talk to a **** client directly. I'm not a big fan of solutions which require me to authenticate to an outside entity to talk to my own equipment. I've NEVER set up a Microsoft ID, for example, on my computers. From a "disaster support" perspective, I may have internet access to my radio, but if my **** client can't reach Flex Radio's authentication site, I can't talk to my radio remotely. That's a liability, in my mind.1
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