FW: [hobbit] bbproxy

[Jones, Jason (Altrincham)]

Hi,

These are the instructions my predecessor left:

   1. Add --listening=127.0.0.1 to hobbitd in your forwarding server's
hobbitlaunch.cfg
   2. Enable bbproxy in your forwarding server's hobbitlaunch.cfg use
the 	option --bbdisplay=5.6.7.8,127.0.0.1(NB:127.0.0.1 is last
because the 	last variable points to the server that configures
clients) to tell it 	to forward requests to both servers (also add --
listen=137.202.205.54(external ip))
   3. Change the BBSERVERIP setting in hobbitserver.cfg to point at the
127.0.0.1 address. This setting is used e.g. by the web CGI's that
talk to the "real" hobbit server, so it is best to point at the real
server IP, not the proxy
   4. If you run network tests from the same server then you probably
need 	to change the CMD setting in hobbitlaunch.cfg also. Instead of
calling 	bbtest-net directly, put it into a shell script wrapper
and set BBDISP 	explicitly to the 5.6.7.8 address before bbtest-net.
Otherwise, it 	will pick the BBSERVERIP setting and send the network
test results to 	127.0.0.1 - so they won't go through the proxy,
and hence you won't 	see them on the main server.
   5. Restart Hobbit

So I've done step 1-3 but 4 is confusing me, are there any other ways to
go about getting a proxy setup or is this the only know solution?

Thanks,
Jason.

-----Original Message-----
From: Buchan Milne [mailto:bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net] 
Sent: 08 December 2006 07:11
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Cc: Jones, Jason (Altrincham)
Subject: Re: [hobbit] bbproxy

On Thursday 07 December 2006 18:28, Jones, Jason (Altrincham) wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone have a small how-to on getting bbproxy to work, I have
> figured out most of the basics but have run into two problems, first
the
> proxy servers webpage is now frozen, which I don't want to happen and
> second the ping, http, ftp etc. tests on the main server are purple,
all
> other tests are as they should be.

Describe how you have set up the proxy, as that might help understand
why this 
is happening.

Regards,
Buchan
-- 
Buchan Milne
ISP Systems Specialist - Monitoring/Authentication Team Leader
B.Eng,RHCE(803004789010797),LPIC-2(LPI000074592)