Hi Jason , You are right from an arcetcture perspective.
I am just running some testings . So i have set the conduit as a packet forwarder to an ip of a node red server on port 1680. On the node red server I have set udp receiver node on that same port and I could see the lora node packets being received. I am now in the process of decrypting the packets using a lora-decrypter pallette knowing the keys, but still no luck.. it might be am using wrong keys am not sure . I will have to dig more into that.