If I was using thinsboard.cloud then I was putting MQTT broker name as thingsboard.cloud . But as of now I have deployed things board at GKE so what MQTT broker I can use to communicate. I tried to put public Ip address of the same but not working
The Public IP Address should be correct. Unless you changed it, the default port for MQTT in ThingsBoard is 1883.
Probably there are network restrictions, which not allow you to make connections via MQTT port 1883.
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This is just a conceptual question that I have been thinking about recently.
Say I'm running an Nginx container on Docker on a host. Normally, for this to work, we have to map ports like 80 and 443 to host container. This is because these are listening ports, and connections from the outside world to port 80 should be forwarded to port 80 of the container. So far so good.
But also: port 80 is just the listening socket, right? The listening socket only accepts the connection; after this any communication done between a client and the Nginx server is supposedly done on a different socket with a random port number (on the server side). This is to allow multiple connections, and to keep the listening port free to establish more connections, etc. This is where my issue comes in.
Say I'm a client and I connect to this Nginx server. As far as I understand, I first send TCP packets to port 80 of the host that is hosting this Nginx Docker container. But during the establishment of the connection, the server changes their port to another number, say 45670. (Not sure how, but I am guessing the packets that are sent back suddenly mention this port, and our client will continue the rest of the exchange with this port number instead).
But now as I send packets (e.g. HTTP requests) to the host on port 45670, how will the Nginx docker container see those packets?
I am struggling to understand how server processes can run on Docker with only one port exposed / published for mapping.
Thanks!
But also: port 80 is just the listening socket, right? The listening socket only accepts the connection; after this any communication done between a client and the Nginx server is supposedly done on a different socket with a random port number (on the server side).
Nope. When a connection is established, the client side is a random port number (usually) and the server side is the same port that the server listens on.
In TCP there aren't actually listening sockets - they're an operating system thing - and a connection is identified by the combination of both the port numbers and both the IP addresses. The client sends a SYN ("new connection please") from its port 49621 (for example) to port 80 on the server; the server sends a SYN/ACK ("okay") from its port 80 to port 49621 on the client.
I have three VMs (VirtualBox, Ubuntu 18.04). All of them with Mosquitto broker (configured as default localhost:1883). Two VMs are PUB with private IPs and a "server" is a SUB (assigned via DHCP -bridged-). What I have is:
VM1 (PUB) [192.168.1.66]
VM (SUB) [192.168.1.55]
VM2 (PUB) [192.168.1.74]
The idea is the SUB to receive MQTT from all PUBs, however, it only works if the MQTT client is configured as following
VM1 [192.168.1.66:1883] --> VM [192.168.1.66:1883] <-- VM2 [192.168.1.74:1883]
So, the SUB will only receive messages from VM1 but not from VM2 neither other VMs (PUB). How can I configure the mosquitto and the client at the SUB to receive messages from all PUBs?
A MQTT client instance can only connect to a single MQTT Broker.
You have 2 options.
Run just one broker on any of the 3 machines and have all the publishing clients just publish to that broker and likewise the subscriber .
You can configure one of the brokers to bridge to all the other brokers and subscribe to any messages published on those broker so they they will appear in the topic hierarchy of that single broker.
Details of how to configure mosquitto bridges can be found in the man page here
I need to be able to read/write to an Azure Service Bus Queue and for that, the hostname and ports need to be white-listed by my IT team.
The connection string is: "Endpoint=sb://[myappname].servicebus.windows.net;...".
I have tried the hostname with port 443 (assuming here), but that hasn't worked after white-listing. So now I tried writing to queue while capturing the traffic from Wireshark, but I am getting lost in all the network packet details there.
Can anyone please help me with this?
Thank you
TCP port is used by default for transport operations. Please have a try to open the port 5671 and 5672. We could get more information from AMQP 1.0 in Azure Service Bus and Event Hubs protocol guide.
Azure Service Bus requires the use of TLS at all times. It supports connections over TCP port 5671, whereby the TCP connection is first overlaid with TLS before entering the AMQP protocol handshake, and also supports connections over TCP port 5672 whereby the server immediately offers a mandatory upgrade of connection to TLS using the AMQP-prescribed model. The AMQP WebSockets binding creates a tunnel over TCP port 443 that is then equivalent to AMQP 5671 connections.
If you use a library, please have a try to set the ConnectivityMode to https (443 port)
ServiceBusEnvironment.SystemConnectivity.Mode = ConnectivityMode.Https
I'm struggling with exposing Mosquitto that I setup on my Centos7 homeserver to the outside internet through my router.
Mosquitto runs fine on my localhost and post 1883 on the homeserver. I am able to pub/sub, and it is listening on the port as 127.0.0.1:1883 (tcp)
My home router has a dynamic IP (for now), say 76.43.150.206. On the router I port forwarded 1883 as both internal/external ports to my home server, say 192.168.1.100.
In the mosquitto.conf file, I have one simply line "listener 1883 76.43.150.206".
When I then attempt to pub/sub using a python client on an external computer as mqttc.connect("76.43.150.206", 1883), it says connection refused.
Any hints on what I'm doing wrong or how to get it working? BTW, my understanding of this setup is very basic and I've pretty much been going off blogs.
Here's how it will work:
1.) Setup mosquitto.conf as
listener 1883 0.0.0.0
#cafile <path to ca file>
#certfile <path to server cert>
#keyfile <path to server key>
#require_certificate false
0.0.0.0 binds the server to all interfaces present.
You can uncomment the code to enable TLS for better security. But you'll have to configure the client to use the same as well..
2.) Port forward router's 1883 port number to port 1883 of IP of machine running the broker.
3.) Start the broker and test your client!
You should not put the external address into the mosquitto config file.
You should probably not even have a listen line at all as mosquitto will bind to all available IP addresses on the machine it's running with the default port (1883).
If you really must use the listen directive (e.g. in order to set up SSL) then it should be configured with the internal IP address of the machine running the broker, in this case 192.168.1.100 and with a different port number so it does not clash with the default
listen 1884 192.168.1.100
When I publish and subscribe at localhost its work fine.
When I try from my PC at home I just can't connect to the broker.
open TCP port in/out at security group - 1883 8883 8080
open the ports also at my ec2 instance firewall...
what is the problem? I use the public DNS by amazon as I think I should...
This is an exercise at diagnosing network problems:
1) netstat -a -n | grep 1883
will tell you whether your broker is configured correctly
2) wireshark packet capture will tell you whether your system is receiving packets at the specific port
You will not get an answer until you at least do those.