A question about network. I need a "bridge" to connect our IoT-net to the internal net on a machine. For example, the machine have an internal network with 192.168.100.x and our IoT network have 192.168.50.x. On one machine i use an ubiquity edge router and set it up like a bridge with a firewall and portforwarded only the opcua port. Is there any other nice device to accomplish the same thing? Very good it is DIN-compatible so i could mount in the the machine cabinet on the DIN-rails.

> On one machine i use an ubiquity edge router and set it up like a bridge with a firewall and portforwarded only the opcua port. we used to to this with an edge device running opnsense

Yes. That is one option. I was also looking at siemens iot2050 which has a quite good price and comes with an industrial debian and 2 ethernet cards.

i am big fans of the onlogic ones, as we have found them to be kind reliable with well supported chips in there

yes. this is what i was looking at a way back.. Not sure though about the security since you can access the edge device externally.. Most secure would be to close all ports except mqtt.

What do you mean you can access the edge device externally? All ports are closed?

So you mean that you setup the device first and then you can only reconfigure it from the machine side?

no, you can configure the device externally, but still all ports are closed. the device opens a connection to an external server and this is how it does the connectio

Ah. yes. i understand. So you can access it only through the mgnt console.

Yes!

ok. so if you want to update anything on the OS you need to connect from the machine side right?

yes! maybe in the future there will be also an SSH feature in the management console, but for now we didn't want to put it in there for security reasons.

ok. But you can still deploy a new protocol converter from the mgnt console if you need to add more data to read?