17 Sep
2010
17 Sep
'10
7:25 a.m.
On Thu, 2010-09-16 18:12:36 -0700, Sunil Karumuri wrote:
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Can we configure Stunnel to have only ONE SSL connection (or a pool of connections) between box A and B and have Stunnel use the open connection for all traffic from various clients ?
Sunil,
This would add a lot of complexity to stunnel, as it would need to keep track of originator and destination (and sequence) of the 'data items' sent through the tunnel. Also the state of the multiplexed connections have to be known on both ends of the tunnel. (Currently, the TCP/IP stack does this job.)
Maybe the multiplexing could be done with other tools (like encapsulate(1) from the netpipes(1) package), still using stunnel for encryption.
You may also be looking for a VPN solution.
Ludolf
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