RE: [webmin-l] Webmin Servers, Broadcast/scan

[Neal M. <Ne...@mo...>]

Jamie:

Thanks for the clarification.  I took the time to try this out and I
find that both broadcast and scan only want to work if the UDP port on
the servers is set to 10000.  My non standard port won't work there.  I
see the UDP listener in place on the desired port using netstat, but it
still doesn't seem to work.

Another minor issue: if your servers are multihomed and listen on all
interfaces, the broadcast option finds them on all interfaces and adds
multiple instances of the same machine.  I understand this is probably
because they appear to be different based on IP - but they do report the
same server name.  I wonder if it's worth de-duping on name, or at least
prompting for confirmation before adding when more than one with the
same name was found.

Neither of these are show-stoppers, but maybe you'd want to add them to
your list of future fixes...

As always, thanks for your support and the great software!



Regards,

Neal Morgan=20


-----Original Message-----
From: web...@li...
[mailto:web...@li...] On Behalf Of Jamie
Cameron
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 3:04 PM
To: web...@li...
Subject: Re: [webmin-l] Webmin Servers, Broadcast/scan


<snip>

Hi Neal,
Webmin actually listens on two ports, which by default are port 10000
TCP
and 10000 UDP. The first is for the actual HTTP connections, while the
second
is for accepting broadcasts from other Webmin servers. They are actually
configured
separately on the 'Ports and Addresses' page of the 'Webmin
Configuration' module.

When sending a broadcast, Webmin will send to the same port number that
it listens
on itself.

 - Jamie