choosing distributed comm ports

[Michael McDaniel]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 05:42:59PM -0500, Vance Shipley wrote:
> Michael,
> 
> What you want to do is to create a tunnel.  This is most easily
> accomplished as I detailed here:
> 
> 	http://www.erlang.org/ml-archive/erlang-questions/200402/msg00119.html
> 	http://www.erlang.org/ml-archive/erlang-questions/200402/msg00120.html
> 
> 	-Vance
> 
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 01:35:34PM -0800, Michael McDaniel wrote:
> }  
> }  I have some remote firewalled computers providing net services.  I want to
> }  install Erlang nodes on those computers for remote monitoring and control.
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Thank you, Vance.  That would certainly work, though I would rather reserve
tunneling with SSH for installations where the firewall configuration is
less flexible.

Since I have access to the firewalls, I would rather open up some high port that
my SSL Erlang nodes are 'guarding', waiting for a connection from/to another
SSL Erlang node, and refusing all other access.  

Hence the need to pre-determine and control what ports will be used by the 
SSL Erlang nodes.

~Michael