So if you were going to open holes in a firewall, what ports would you
open for the data to go through?  Given that statement about the client
source port, you could not definitively say what port it is going to
come over

-----Original Message-----
From: Remco Post [mailto:r.post AT SARA DOT NL] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 11:03 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: What do these numbers mean ?

On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 11:57:13 -0500
Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU <zforray AT VCU DOT EDU> wrote:

> Thank you (and Richard).
>
> But I am still a little confused on why these numbers vary soooooo
much.
>
> Besides, I thought the PORT number is 1500/1501 ?   That is what is
> configured ?

The TSM server port (dest) is 1500 per default. The clients source port
is
random and usually somewhere between 32768 and 65535.

The TSM client listener is usually on port 1501.

>
> Is this a firewall thing ?
>
>
>
>
>
> Karel Bos <Karel.Bos AT NUON DOT COM>
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
> 02/04/2004 11:18 AM
> Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"
>
>
>         To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>         cc:
>         Subject:        Re: What do these numbers mean ?
>
>
> TCP portnumber.
>
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:zforray AT VCU DOT EDU]
> Verzonden: woensdag 4 februari 2004 17:18
> Aan: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Onderwerp: What do these numbers mean ?
>
>
> We are having problems getting a Linux client to perform backups (see
my
> earlier message that has not been responded to...yet !).
>
> What do the numbers after the DNS name mean and how are they relevant
?
> Sometimes the numbers are 4-digits....other times 5 ??
>
> 2/4/2004 10:36:48 AM ANR0406I Session 42860 started for node
AJAX.VCU.EDU
> (Linux86) (Tcp/Ip ajax.vcu.edu(57262)).


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