Re: FN-FORUM: Netgear FA311 drivers for Linux

date posted 25th June 2003 16:48

On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Carrie wrote:
> > I don't use webmin, so this is a complete stab-in-the-dark, but you are
> > using a URL of the form:
> >
> > https://myserver:10000/
> >
> > right? Note the ':10000' to specify the port.
> >
> yup - using https://192.168.0.10:10000 it works on http, but not on https.

In that case, assuming you've only got a packet filtering firewall, TCP
connections to port 10000 are working fine. The protocol running on that
port will be irrelevant.

Is your browser configured to use a proxy perhaps? One that doesn't handle
HTTPS?

What happens if you try to use a browser running *on* the webmin host to
connect? (e.g. 'lynx https://127.0.0.1:10000/')

Can you install a copy of Ethereal somewhere
(either on the client, or a *hub* (not switch) somewhere in between the
client and the webmin server) and tell us what it sees?

> I have got it set to allow from all as IP addresses, if it is set to
> secure and I access the http equvalent I get a message saying that the
> server is in SSL mode. The process is running. I am using the suse
> firewall through yast and have configured it to alow services on port 10000.
> am using Suse Linux 8.1, I have this really nasty feeling that I am soon
> going to know more than I previously wanted to about firewalls....
> miniserve hasn't spotted the requests to the https address so I guess the
> packets are never getting there. Does anyone now any good firewall
> primers/resources?

Oh, plenty (see the Assursys "links" page for a few, plus O'Reilly's
"Building Internet Firewalls), but I don't think that's your problem right
now.

> thanks
> Carrie

Best Regards,
Alex.
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