When deploying balena devices in corporate environments, OpenVPN is extremely problematic. All modern firewalls detect and block outbound VPN traffic, even if over port 443 (TLS connection setup is very different from OpenVPN setup). Additionally, many of these environments have MITM requirements wh…

Replace OpenVPN with a standard WebSocket

anonymizeduser July 22, 2024, 3:47am 2

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Possible “VPN Over WebSocket” if we’re unable to just multiplex a standard WebSocket:

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