Re: [hobbit] bbproxy to hobbit server

["Asif Iqbal" <vadud3 (at) gmail.com>]

On 6/20/06, Henrik Stoerner <henrik (at) hswn.dk> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 12:14:57PM -0400, Asif Iqbal wrote:
> >
> > Our network setup in a way that ecery client needs to be in the Firewall
> ACL
> > to be allowed to talk to hobbit server on port 1984. Now if I use a
> bbproxy
> > which IP the hobbit server sees? The hobbit clients' IPs or just the
> bbproxy
> > server's IP?
>
> The hobbit server will see all connections as coming from the bbproxy
> server's IP.
>
> > clients --> bbproxy server --> hobbit server
>
> An accurate depiction of the connections.
>
> As a side note, even though the Hobbit server sees connections as coming
> from the bbproxy server, the data sent by the proxy server includes the
> original IP of the client which originated the message. So even though
> data is passing through the proxy, status messages will still show the
> real IP in the "Status message received from ..." line.



So in the acl list of the Firewall--that is infront of the hobbit server--I
guess I should just need to add the bbproxy's IP correct?


Regards,
> Henrik
>
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