Re: Goodbye SNMP, hello statistics.

2008-06-24 Thread Kevin Bonner
On Friday 20 June 2008 09:48:53 Alan DeKok wrote: I've commited some code (~1K LoC) to CVS head that will go into 2.0.6. In short, there's no point in using SNMP any more. The good news is that the Status-Server packet is overloaded to get all sorts of statistics that weren't available in

Re: Goodbye SNMP, hello statistics.

2008-06-23 Thread Matt Causey
Exciting stuff! On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Alan DeKok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've commited some code (~1K LoC) to CVS head that will go into 2.0.6. In short, there's no point in using SNMP any more. The good news is that the Status-Server packet is overloaded to get all sorts of

Re: Goodbye SNMP, hello statistics.

2008-06-20 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
hi, this is very cool - i guess it would be handy to let remote authorised machiens query it (trivial to have one central stats store then) but still. I hope to see a lot of useful tools/widgets using this. bit of RRDTool is calling. alan - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See

Re: Goodbye SNMP, hello statistics.

2008-06-20 Thread Alan DeKok
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this is very cool - i guess it would be handy to let remote authorised machiens query it Yes. But... it is a potential security issue to expose those statistics to anyone who asks. I could see external sites querying these statistics if: - the connection is

Re: Goodbye SNMP, hello statistics.

2008-06-20 Thread Arran Cudbard-Bell
Alan DeKok wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this is very cool - i guess it would be handy to let remote authorised machiens query it Seconded. Yes. But... it is a potential security issue to expose those statistics to anyone who asks. I could see external sites querying

Re: Goodbye SNMP, hello statistics.

2008-06-20 Thread Alan DeKok
Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote: But it also kinda limits the usefulness of the feature. Couldn't you place it in the hands of the server admins to decide which hosts can query and which can't? Another configuration item in clients? grumble It's possible. I guess. I think the safest thing to

Re: Goodbye SNMP, hello statistics.

2008-06-20 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, Yes. But... it is a potential security issue to expose those statistics to anyone who asks. obviously. I could see external sites querying these statistics if: - the connection is encrypted - the client is querying a socket dedicated to Status-Server messages. yep.

Re: Goodbye SNMP, hello statistics.

2008-06-20 Thread Alan DeKok
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yep. now...although I'm thinking RADSEC could be involved...just a new port that is properly firewalled would do. i guess a 'statistics virtual server' would be the ideal thing. Done. Listen type = status. In CVS. i noted! grabbed the CVS to just have a look

Re: Goodbye SNMP, hello statistics.

2008-06-20 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, Done. Listen type = status. In CVS. :-) You have local modifications, and the CVS update didn't do a merge, because it didn't know how. okay. yup. auth.c - modified a while back now - was the goodpass/badpass logging issue. removed and it now works alan - List

Re: Goodbye SNMP, hello statistics.

2008-06-20 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote: But it also kinda limits the usefulness of the feature. Couldn't you place it in the hands of the server admins to decide which hosts can query and which can't? Another configuration item in clients? grumble It's possible. I guess. I think the

Re: Goodbye SNMP, hello statistics.

2008-06-20 Thread Alan DeKok
Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: Maybe a quicker solution would be to enable libwrap for it? I understand the changes to the code to support libwrap aren't too much, and it can even be made optional via the ./configure . Ugh. The IP configuration / filter in the server already does as much,

Re: Goodbye SNMP, hello statistics.

2008-06-20 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: Maybe a quicker solution would be to enable libwrap for it? I understand the changes to the code to support libwrap aren't too much, and it can even be made optional via the ./configure . Ugh. The IP configuration / filter in the server already does as