[ngw] BES -- device setup question

[James Taylor]

I don't believe any traffic originates to the BES server.

The BES server originates traffic to the BES server and all the device transactions are through the provider to RIM.
The BES server contacts RIM servers to update the clients and receive any client generated updates.

That's what RIM support seemed to indicate the process was when I asked them about it.  That's why you don't need a public address for your BES server.

jt



James Taylor
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>>> On Mon, Oct 1, 2007 at  3:55 PM, in message
<4702076F.10A8.0003.0 at indfish.co.nz>, "Scott Campbell"
<Scott.Campbell at indfish.co.nz> wrote: 
> I believe that BES will create a connection a a specific address on the net 
> which effectively acts as a proxy.
> (Blackberry Server Configuration -> Blackberry Router), the BES will talk to 
> this address - presumably opening a 'permanent' connection (netstat appears to 
> confirm it).  The Blackberry devices themselves will contact the Blackberry 
> service providers host and traffic will get redirected to your server.
> Someone can probably call me on that one, the documentation I have found 
> shockingly bad, so it is based on assumption and what I have seen :-)
>  
>  
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> Scott Campbell
> IT Manager
> Independent Fisheries Ltd
> Phone: +64 3 3842 344
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>>>> On 02/10/2007 at 06:38, "Peter Van Lone" <petervl at gmail.com> wrote:
> BUT --- HOW does this work? Don't we need to do anything with the
> firewall? How can a device talk to the BES server if not?
> 
> :-)
> 
> Peter
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