Ewon flexy 205 port forwarding

augie

• July 15, 2019 12:29

Im installing a FLEXY 205 at a customers site and their IT dept needs to open a port. What port do I have them open up and can I set it up with a static IP on the WAN or is it better to leave it DHCP.
Thanks in advance

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  Kyle Reynolds

  • July 15, 2019 12:34

  Hi @augie,

  They don't need to open an incoming port on the firewall and do port forwarding for the Flexy 205. We don't recommend exposing the device directly to the internet. It just needs to have internet access and have outgoing ports 443 and 1194 open on the firewall. It often helps to whitelist our domain *.talk2m.com. Please see:

   

  https://forum.hms-networks.com/t/talk2m-server-addresses-hostnames/1042

  UPDATE: This thread is no longer maintained as this information is now available on the official eWON web page. Please click https://ewon.biz/technical-support/pages/talk2m-status/talk2m-vpn-servers for the latest information. Documents: Table of Contents #heading--description #heading--recommendations #heading--common #heading--client #heading--usa-client #heading--australia-client #heading--china-client #heading--japan-client #heading--india-client #heading--sa-client #heading--europe-client #heading--device #heading--usa-device :

   

   

   

   

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  augie

  • July 29, 2019 12:40

  OK Thanks Kyle, sorry for the late response. Everything seems to be working properly.

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  Dewy

  • April 24, 2020 12:08

  Hi Kyle,
  I have a similar kind of question.
  Tommorow I will do an installation of an eWON 205 modem at customer side. For the VPN connection I mentioned to the IT dep to open port 443. However he mentioned that this port is already used by another device. So he proposed to setup a forward port to connect through port 443. Is this possible ?

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  Kyle Reynolds

  • April 24, 2020 12:22

  Hi @Dewy,

  They actually don't need to open a port on the firewall because the Flexy is using outbound traffic to connect to the VPN, which is typically allowed by default. The IT department probably is has a web server using 443 which is incoming traffic. They just need to be sure that they aren't doing SSL inspection or interception or blocking VPN traffic. If they are, they will have to whitelist the Flexy by IP or MAC address.

  Also, if they are blocking access to certain sites, they'll need to make sure access is allowed to these:

  https://ewon.biz/technical-support/pages/talk2m-status/talk2m-vpn-servers

  Let me know if you have any more questions or any trouble with the setup.

  Kyle

   

   

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