[dba-Tech] Extranet VPN for testing customers' web sites/web API solutions

[Salakhetdinov Shamil]

Hi Gustav --

OK, I will give it a try and I will post here in the coming days on my testing results.

-- Shamil


>Thursday, August  3, 2017 1:34 PM +03:00 from Gustav Brock <gustav at cactus.dk>:
>
>Hi Shamil
>
>I can't tell about the VPN infrastructure as that must be a courtesy of your hosting provider, but as you have a VM and not just a web server, I guess no ports are blocked.
>
>The only way to find out if the netsh command will work, is to check it out. Even though port 80 is default for the HTTP protocol, I would explicitly specify it as you suggest.
>
>/gustav
>
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>Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] Extranet VPN for testing customers' web sites/web API solutions
>
>Hi Gustav --
>
>Thank you for the example you found.
>
>So using netsh and having VPN infrastructure activated and configured for the case
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>1. Customer #1 would get access to virtual IP 15.27.103.185 referring real IP:Port  123.17.82.45:2337
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>the Cusomer #1 should run the following netsh command:
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>netsh interface portproxy add v4tov4 listenport=80 listenaddress= 15.27.103.185 connectport=2337 connectaddress= 123.17.82.45 ?
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>Not sure about listenport=80 value, not sure about if it works at all what I'd like to get in this case is the Customer #1 typing
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>http://15.27.103.185
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>in his browser and accessing web site running on my cloud VM on  http:// 123.17.82.45:2337  (Use sase #1.1)
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>or the Customer #1 WinForms/WPF/UWP/... application communicating with a RESTFul Web API via 
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>http://15.27.103.185
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>and actually getting connected with the RESTFul Web API on http:// 123.17.82.45:2337  (Use sase #1.2)
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>Do you suppose use cases #1.1 and #1.2 are doable this or that way?
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>Thank you.
>
>-- Shamil
>
>
>>Thursday, August  3, 2017 12:41 PM +03:00 from Gustav Brock < gustav at cactus.dk >:
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>>Hi Shamil
>>
>>I believe the native command netsh is for this (and many other tasks).
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>>I found this example on port forwarding in windows:
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>>      https://stackoverflow.com/a/11535395/3527297
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>>Another option seems to be nginx. 
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>>I haven't tried any of these methods.
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>>/gustav
>>
>>
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>>Cc: Salakhetdinov Shamil <  mcp2004 at mail.ru >
>>Emne: [dba-Tech] Extranet VPN for testing customers' web sites/web API solutions
>>
>>Hi All --
>>
>>I have a hosted on a cloud MS Windows Server 2012+ VM and I'd like to setup my customers' testing web sites/web API solutions.
>>The hosted VM has its own IP but I'd like to virtualize access to customers' testing web sites by using virtual IPs, which, as I expect could be provided by a VPN infrastructure/software.
>>
>>For example via VPN:
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>>1. Customer #1 would get access to virtual IP 15.27.103.185 referring real IP:Port  123.17.82.45:2337 2. Customer #2 would get access to virtual IP 15.27.103.142 referring real IP:Port  123.17.82.45:2338 ...
>>N. Customer #N would get access to virtual IP 15.27.103.1147 referring real IP:Port  123.17.82.45:2399
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>>(all the IP addresses and ports above are just sample ones not having any real refs) 
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>>Is it possible?
>>
>>If it's possible what software would you recommened to setup on server side? 
>>This one looks good -  https://www.softether.org/1-features ?
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>>I'd prefer free/not very expensive solution on server side and free solution for client/customers side.
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>>NB: I currently prefer to not use MS Azure, AWS etc.
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>>Thank you.
>>
>>-- Shamil 
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