IP KVM & Cloudflare Zero Trust? Awesome

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Picked up a POE Comet and played around with it on a headless system, then ended up picking up 2 Pro’s. All 3 are connected to various systems in my “home lab” either directly or via a KVM.

Have all 3 configured in a CloudFlare Zero Trust, and the performance compared to RDP and VNC is incredible. While the zero trust can render RDP windows in a browser, there were always glitches that caused a lot of usability issues.

While there are little glitches here and there with the IP KVMs, the overall usability is great. I just load a browser window on my work system and I’m able to get into my home systems through a secure tunnel without any additional software installed on the work laptop….. I’m posting this from my MacBook sitting on my desk at home while I’m at work.

I have tried a LOT of software based solutions to do this - and nothing has come close to what I’m able to do with these devices. It’s been a huge help to some of my work processes, that by the nature need to happen in a sandbox environment to avoid risk to company infrastructure. Being able to access my VM server this easily, to quickly spin up various systems is amazing.

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We've already added access methods like ZeroTier and TailScale, and Cloudflare might be a future option as well.

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FWIW, I'd be happy to help test a CloudFlare solution.

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Ohhhh that would be amazing!

I have a server that has the Zero Trust gateway running in a docker; while there is the occasional bandwidth related glitch with how I’m doing things – this has been an incredible experience. I just get through a few 2FA auths and can access systems without any additional software. Can’t beat that.

Did have a recent quirk where the WebRTC(FEC) stopped displaying the video output, but I’m not certain where the issue is – could easily be something on my internal network; need to do more troubleshooting before I complain to ya’ll. WebRTC still works fine!