Re: [webmin-l] Hooking up two Webmins behind firewalls

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 6/Dec/2006 05:17 Joaquim Homrighausen wrote ..
> 
> Hello!
> 
> OK; so if I move it to 8080, we're talking 8080 + 8081-8180?

Yes..

> And for #2, they're both behind firewalls, but not the same firewall.

In that case, both firewalls would have to allow the traffic - but only
from the central to the node.

 - Jamie

> This is for running Webmin on a remote site (the "node"), reporting/communicating
> with our webmin ("central).
> 
> 
> -joho
> 
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> Fr=E5n: Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...>
> Till: Webmin users list <web...@li...>
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> Datum: onsdag, 6 december 2006 01:50
> =C4rende: Re: [webmin-l] Hooking up two Webmins behind firewalls
> On 5/Dec/2006 14:15 Joaquim Homrighausen wrote ..
> > 
> > I think I asked this question before, but cannot find the answer.
> > 
> > Scenario 1:
> > 
> > Two webmins, one "central" and one "node". The "node" is on a Linux firewall
> > machine, the "central" is on a Linux machine behind a firewall. I want
> > these two to communicate securely, using a given port (say 8080 instead
> > of 10000). What do I need to open on the firewalls for these two to be
> > able to communicate securerly, issue fast RPC commands, etc.?
> 
> The port Webmin uses for inter-system communication is always the one that
> you login to it on, which is typically 10000. So you would have to allow
> traffic
> on port 10000 to the node through the firewall.
> 
> Also, if you want to use 'fast RPC' mode, you should also open ports 10001-10100.
> 
> > Scenario 2:
> > 
> > Similar to the above, but "node" is on a Linux samba server behind the
> > above mentioned Linux firewall, I want it to communicate with the "central"
> > webmin in the same way as described above.
> 
> So are both node and central behind the firewall? If so, it wouldn't even
> come into play ..
> 
> 
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