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Eddie
Eddie

Reputation: 163

One machine being server AND client with STunnel

I know that STunnel can be set up as either server or client with the "client = no" or "client = yes" lines in the config file. Is there a way for a machine to be BOTH a server and client?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 4183

Answers (4)

tri.akki7
tri.akki7

Reputation: 129

Stunnel Client Configurations

[client]
client = yes
accept = 7777
connect = 127.0.0.1:7777

"accept" will act as server
"connect" will act as client

Stunnel Server Configurations

[server]
accept = 7777
connect = 127.0.0.1:7777

"accept" will act as client
"connect" will act as server

Upvotes: 0

zergius
zergius

Reputation: 434

As /etc/stunnel/README file says,

"Files found under the /etc/stunnel directory that end with .conf are used by stunnel4 service as configuration files, and each will be used to start a daemon process setting up a tunnel with the given configuration..."

I assume you can keep 2 separate config files there: one for server and another one for client. Than you'll have 2 daemons started. You can find config file examples in a file /usr/share/doc/stunnel4/examples/stunnel.conf-sample

Upvotes: 0

eldad hadas
eldad hadas

Reputation: 51

It is much easier you can simply You just have to set client=no under the [] (service) where stunnel works as a server and client=yes otherwise. You should also put service specific parameters like certificates where they belong.

Something like:

[server1]
..
client=no

[client1]
..
client=yes

Upvotes: 5

Nikolai Fetissov
Nikolai Fetissov

Reputation: 84189

You can specify the configuration file path on the command line, see stunnel(8).

Upvotes: 1

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