There aren't pre-compiled binaries around with port restrictions
already in place, are there ?

>From my amanda config.log

  $ ./configure --with-tcpportrange=10084,10100 --with-udpportrange=932,948 
--with-group=sys --with-user=amanda

>From my build

[newton] /tmp/amanda-build/common-src 27> make
source='alloc.c' object='alloc.lo' libtool=yes \
depfile='.deps/alloc.Plo' tmpdepfile='.deps/alloc.TPlo' \
depmode=none /bin/ksh ../config/depcomp \
/bin/ksh ../libtool --mode=compile /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. 
-I../config  -I./../regex-src  -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64  
-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -g -c -o alloc.lo `test -f 'alloc.c' 
|| echo './'`alloc.c
mkdir .libs
/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../config -I./../regex-src 
-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE 
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -g -c alloc.c  -KPIC -DPIC -o alloc.o
"/usr/include/sys/model.h", line 35: syntax error before or at: /
cc: acomp failed for alloc.c
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `alloc.lo'

Oh well - will attach a DDS drive to the box tomorrow, then the
FW will not matter.

                                                thanks