Joshua:

You are correct, there is a docs directory in the 2.4.3 tarball and it has 
the PORTS.USAGE document. 

Thanks again. And sorry for disseminating missinformation.

--
Dr. Karl Hudnut       System Administrator      UCAR - COSMIC
khudnut AT ucar DOT edu   http://www.cosmic.ucar.edu    303 497 8024


On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:

> CCed back to the list for the archives...
> 
> On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 at 3:01pm, Karl Hudnut wrote
> 
> > Thanks for your help. I don't seem to have that documentation in any of
> > the rpms I have here. It doesn's seem to be in the tarballs from
> > amanda.org either. Can you help me find it?
> 
> ??  I just downloaded amanda-2.4.3.tar.gz via the link 
> <http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/amanda/amanda-2.4.3.tar.gz?download> 
> on <http://www.amanda.org/download.html> and there's an entire directory 
> in there called 'docs'.
> 
> > I also wonder if you have any comment on amcheck succeeding and amdump 
> > failing.
> 
> Amcheck just connects to the amandad port (UDP 10080) on the client.  It 
> doesn't check that the client can actually open the TCP connections back 
> to the server.
> 
> Grepping through my own mail archives, here's a summary of port usage I 
> posted back in 2001:
> 
> The amanda server sends a UDP sendbackup request from a privileged port 
> (not necessarily the same one as above) to port 10080 on the client.
> The amanda client sends a UDP ACK from port 10080 to the originating 
> privileged port on the server.  It then sends another one containing the 
> numbers of three (non-privileged) TCP ports to set up the data, message, 
> and index connections.
> The amanda server sends a UDP ACK from the privileged port to port 10080 
> on the client.
> The amanda server then initiates three TCP connections on the ports 
> indicated in the UDP packet from the client.  These are on unprivileged 
> ports on both systems.  The dumper on the client then proceeds to start 
> sending date over the TCP connections.
> 
> -- 
> Joshua Baker-LePain
> Department of Biomedical Engineering
> Duke University
> 
>