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bbproxy to hobbit server

list Henrik Størner
Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:52:39 +0200
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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.

Regards,
Henrik