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Provisioning the Server MAC Address
BEFORE YOU BEGIN, CONTACT THE PROPERTY IT DEPARTMENT OR THE PROPERTY ISP TO “WHITE-LIST” THE
SERVER MAC ADDRESS TO ALLOW UNHINDERED CONNECTION TO THE INTERNET. THE SERVER MAC ADDRESS IS
PRINTED ON THE SERVER.
The server requires a live ethernet port for MAC address printed on the server with DHCP and the ability to connect outward
via TCP to a remote machine.
The hotel server requires the following to function correctly:
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Wired (ethernet) local connection with either 10 Mbps or 100 Mbps speed. Pure 1Gbps networks will not work.
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DHCP service on that local conncetion. It requires an IP address and a name-server from the local DHCP server.
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DNS to find time synchronization servers at pool.ntp.org.
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Stateful UDP handling for NTP updates. Standard on all commercial firewall appliances and a normal firewall rule
in most Linux or BSD-based firewalls.
Outbound TCP from the hotel server to a remote TCP port 443 for the SSL connection and TCP port 22 for SSH tunnel to the
web server. Web server endpoint IP addresses may change from time to time.
NOTES
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No specific ports need to be forwarded.
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All communications to the web servers are encrypted. Only NTP is done over a non-encrypted channel.
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Other than the NTP updates, there are no inbound connections of any kind.
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