Just installed a relayed ntrip caster on a managed root server with fixed IP:
‘RTKbase on Futro S900 x86 thin client - #3 by wjr’
On the remote root, It runs a str2str TCP-stream-server as input and on the local RTKBase box a str2str TCP-stream-client as output.
This is just the other way round than in the common local RTKBase configuration.
The advantage is that since the connection is established “upwards”, no VPN is required.
First tests indicate a robust behaviour, even when IP of the uplink change regularly at night.
Client connection (UPrecise) survived a service restart of the remote caster.
The disadvantage is that I had to tweak a little bit, and the address of the public ntrip-relay cannot be configured in the RTKBase GUI.
On the public server, there is no Web-GUI, just a small subset of RTKBase.
Credentials are maintained by vi over ssh.
Maybe that some other users might look for something like this - including GUI integration.
However, I know that @Stefal is not in favour of private casters.
Respect that, and thus I don’t dare to issue a feature request, but leave that open to the community.