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hobbit(bb) port 1984 encryption with stunnel

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list T.J. Yang · Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:12:57 -0500 ·
Hi,
http://by138fd.bay138.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?&curmbox=00000000%2d0000%2d0000%2d0000%2d000000000001&a=c3dd844ec8984ee0fc88cdaec8525d7c7c4ebd25761fc90804cf1ce9ea95666c#
Send
I am starting to test out port 1984 encryption using stunnel approach, see following wiki notes.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit/Administration_Guide#Hobbit.28bb.29_port_1984_encryption

Has anyone done this already ? Hoping someone already did this. so I can shorten my try and error process.

Regards

T.J. Yang

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list Ulric Eriksson · Sun, 29 Apr 2007 09:07:19 +0200 (CEST) ·
quoted from T.J. Yang

On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, T.J. Yang wrote:
Hi,
http://by138fd.bay138.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?&curmbox=00000000%2d0000%2d0000%2d0000%2d000000000001&a=c3dd844ec8984ee0fc88cdaec8525d7c7c4ebd25761fc90804cf1ce9ea95666c#
Send
I am starting to test out port 1984 encryption using stunnel approach, see following wiki notes.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit/Administration_Guide#Hobbit.28bb.29_port_1984_encryption

Has anyone done this already ? Hoping someone already did this. so I can shorten my try and error process.
FWIW, we have been using Big Brother clients with stunnel to monitor remote sites for years. It works perfectly. Since Hobbit also uses a simple, tcp based protocol, I see no reason why it shouldn't work as well.

Ulric
list T.J. Yang · Sun, 29 Apr 2007 07:06:37 -0500 ·
quoted from Ulric Eriksson
From: Ulric Eriksson <user-de31148ebe0c@xymon.invalid>
Reply-To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] hobbit(bb) port 1984 encryption with stunnel
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 09:07:19 +0200 (CEST)


On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, T.J. Yang wrote:
Hi,
http://by138fd.bay138.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?&curmbox=00000000%2d0000%2d0000%2d0000%2d000000000001&a=c3dd844ec8984ee0fc88cdaec8525d7c7c4ebd25761fc90804cf1ce9ea95666c#
Send
I am starting to test out port 1984 encryption using stunnel approach, see following wiki notes.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit/Administration_Guide#Hobbit.28bb.29_port_1984_encryption

Has anyone done this already ? Hoping someone already did this. so I can shorten my try and error process.
FWIW, we have been using Big Brother clients with stunnel to monitor remote sites for years. It works perfectly. Since Hobbit also uses a simple, tcp based protocol, I see no reason why it shouldn't work as well.
Ulric,

I am new to stunnel and trying to get stunnel to work with hobbit client and server.
A few questions here.

1. So basically I can configure a hobbit/bb(using same port) server to both accept either encrypted
   bb messages or plain one, correct ?

2.   I can use tcp-wrapper to restrict only the hobbit server itself can connect to itself to lock down
      plain bb message connection from public, correct ?

3. I got 4.20 stunnel  compiled and configured, but the examples on stunnel.org is for older version which accept "-c" kind of options. I am having  problem to really redirect the bb message from a bb client using port 1999 to remote hb server which accepting 1999 (then redirect to local 1984).

I don't know what other stops I need to to fill the following url.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit/Administration_Guide#Configuring_hb_client_to_use_port_1999

Ulric

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list Tod Hansmann · Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:06:49 -0600 ·
For 1 & 2, I have some info.  

1) No, you can't have it use the same port to accept both traffic.  That
would break the rules of networking, so you have to have unencrypted
traffic listening on a different port, OR have some really fancy
iptables rules that I'd rather not think about in detail.  

2) I'm not sure what you're referring to here, but if I have it correct,
you want to redirect encrypted messages (after they've been unencrypted)
to another port on the same server?  That's easily doable with iptables
rules, but that will be a learning curve.  Stunnel may even have
functionality built in to do this already anyway, so you may want to
look at stunnel's documentation for that.

3) You probably want to check with the stunnel mailing list and/or
documentation on this.  I don't know anything about stunnel or its
native capabilities.  Sorry =c)

Hope that helps.

Tod Hansmann
Network Engineer
quoted from T.J. Yang
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: T.J. Yang [mailto:user-8e841282cda5@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 6:07 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] hobbit(bb) port 1984 encryption with stunnel

From: Ulric Eriksson <user-de31148ebe0c@xymon.invalid>
Reply-To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] hobbit(bb) port 1984 encryption with stunnel
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 09:07:19 +0200 (CEST)


On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, T.J. Yang wrote:
Hi,

http://by138fd.bay138.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?&curmbox=0000000
0%2d0000%2d0000%2d0000%2d000000000001&a=c3dd844ec8984ee0fc88cdaec8525d7c
7c4ebd25761fc90804cf1ce9ea95666c#
quoted from T.J. Yang
Send
I am starting to test out port 1984 encryption using stunnel approach,
see 
following wiki notes.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit/Administrat
ion_Guide#Hobbit.28bb.29_port_1984_encryption
quoted from T.J. Yang

Has anyone done this already ? Hoping someone already did this. so I
can 
shorten my try and error process.
FWIW, we have been using Big Brother clients with stunnel to monitor
remote 
sites for years. It works perfectly. Since Hobbit also uses a simple,
tcp 
based protocol, I see no reason why it shouldn't work as well.
Ulric,

I am new to stunnel and trying to get stunnel to work with hobbit client
and 
server.
A few questions here.

1. So basically I can configure a hobbit/bb(using same port) server to
both 
accept either encrypted
   bb messages or plain one, correct ?

2.   I can use tcp-wrapper to restrict only the hobbit server itself can

connect to itself to lock down
      plain bb message connection from public, correct ?

3. I got 4.20 stunnel  compiled and configured, but the examples on 
stunnel.org is for older version which accept "-c" kind of options. I am

having  problem to really redirect the bb message from a bb client using

port 1999 to remote hb server which accepting 1999 (then redirect to
local 
1984).

I don't know what other stops I need to to fill the following url.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit/Administratio
n_Guide#Configuring_hb_client_to_use_port_1999
quoted from T.J. Yang

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list T.J. Yang · Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:39:24 -0500 ·
quoted from Tod Hansmann
From: "Tod Hansmann" <user-b6e28cb93fa4@xymon.invalid>
Reply-To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
To: <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
Subject: RE: [hobbit] hobbit(bb) port 1984 encryption with stunnel
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:06:49 -0600

For 1 & 2, I have some info.

1) No, you can't have it use the same port to accept both traffic.  That
would break the rules of networking, so you have to have unencrypted
traffic listening on a different port, OR have some really fancy
iptables rules that I'd rather not think about in detail.
Agree. I mean on one HB server, one port (1984) to accept plain incoming 
message.
Another encrypted port(1999) to accept messages from hb client send out 
encrypted message.
quoted from Tod Hansmann
2) I'm not sure what you're referring to here, but if I have it correct,
you want to redirect encrypted messages (after they've been unencrypted)
to another port on the same server?  That's easily doable with iptables
rules, but that will be a learning curve.  Stunnel may even have
functionality built in to do this already anyway, so you may want to
look at stunnel's documentation for that.
Yes, I am expecting stunnel will do the redirect work, not iptable.
quoted from Tod Hansmann
3) You probably want to check with the stunnel mailing list and/or
documentation on this.  I don't know anything about stunnel or its
native capabilities.  Sorry =c)
I did. lets wait and see the response I got from the stunnel  user list.
It will be easy once I knew it. ;)

tj
quoted from Tod Hansmann
Hope that helps.

Tod Hansmann
Network Engineer


-----Original Message-----
From: T.J. Yang [mailto:user-8e841282cda5@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 6:07 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] hobbit(bb) port 1984 encryption with stunnel

From: Ulric Eriksson <user-de31148ebe0c@xymon.invalid>
Reply-To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] hobbit(bb) port 1984 encryption with stunnel
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 09:07:19 +0200 (CEST)


On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, T.J. Yang wrote:
Hi,
http://by138fd.bay138.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?&curmbox=0000000
0%2d0000%2d0000%2d0000%2d000000000001&a=c3dd844ec8984ee0fc88cdaec8525d7c
7c4ebd25761fc90804cf1ce9ea95666c#
Send
I am starting to test out port 1984 encryption using stunnel approach,
see
following wiki notes.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit/Administrat
ion_Guide#Hobbit.28bb.29_port_1984_encryption

Has anyone done this already ? Hoping someone already did this. so I
can
shorten my try and error process.
FWIW, we have been using Big Brother clients with stunnel to monitor
remote
sites for years. It works perfectly. Since Hobbit also uses a simple,
tcp
based protocol, I see no reason why it shouldn't work as well.
Ulric,

I am new to stunnel and trying to get stunnel to work with hobbit client
and
server.
A few questions here.

1. So basically I can configure a hobbit/bb(using same port) server to
both
accept either encrypted
   bb messages or plain one, correct ?

2.   I can use tcp-wrapper to restrict only the hobbit server itself can

connect to itself to lock down
      plain bb message connection from public, correct ?

3. I got 4.20 stunnel  compiled and configured, but the examples on
stunnel.org is for older version which accept "-c" kind of options. I am

having  problem to really redirect the bb message from a bb client using

port 1999 to remote hb server which accepting 1999 (then redirect to
local
1984).

I don't know what other stops I need to to fill the following url.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit/Administratio
n_Guide#Configuring_hb_client_to_use_port_1999

Ulric

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