Forwarding VMWare workstation ports with HAProxy

@building39 wrote:

I recently changed ISPs in order to take advantage of much higher speeds. The downside is that the new ISP has a double NAT between me and the internet, which has effectively eliminated any possibility of doing port forwarding like I did with the original service. Previously, I simply forwarded ports 443 and 902 from my DSL modem/router to the machine hosting my VMs, and everything was groovy. Now, that’s not possible.

So, I bought a cheap Linode instance, loaded it up with OpenVPN-AS and HAProxy. OpenVPN is working beautifully, and I have successfully configured HAProxy to forward SSH and HTTP. But I can’t seem to get it to properly forward the ports for VMWare server. Here’s what I have so far:

frontend vmware-frontend
mode tcp
bind 1.2.3.4:8443 ssl crt /etc/ssl/private/my.pem
default_backend vmware_backend

frontend vmwareauthd
mode tcp
bind 1.2.3.4:902 ssl crt /etc/ssl/private/my.pem
default_backend vmwareauthd_backend

backend vmware_backend
mode tcp
server theserver 172.27.232.61:4443 weight 1 maxconn 10240 check

backend vmwareauthd_backend
mode tcp
server theserver 172.27.232.61:902 weight 1 maxconn 10240 check

I’m confident that HAProxy is up for the job - but I’m struggling with how to configure it to do so. With the above configuration, I get an “HTTP error 200” - which is odd, since 200 is “OK”.

Any ideas on how I can fix this?

Thanks!

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