External join servers are possible and supported. We have not had a need for one yet, so I cannot speak to it personally. Here are a couple relevant links:
I’m wanting to use some Cryptography functions to indentify my devices. ( using microchip ATEC608A on the device ). I’m looking at two different approaches;
(a) Dive into the lorasever.io code and see if i can figure out what i’d need to do to modify / extend it to support the secure connectivity. The downside of this, is that i dont’ know go.
(b) Write a secure join server and then use it along side Loraserver. ( using something that i do know ).
I need to do some more work to udnerst…
I manufactured thousands of LoRaWAN devices, each one has a unique DevEUI (I own a EUI range) and all share the same AppEUI/JoinEUI 7CCBE2C000000000 (also owned by me).
The LoRa Alliance already set the DNS resolver for it at
0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.c.2.e.b.c.c.7.joineuis.lora-alliance.org
I want to run a Join Server, to process the authentication of the devices, so I don’t need to share the AppKey of every device with my customers.
I plan to run just the lora-app-server alone for this purpose, d…