On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 03:03:21PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 11:21:43AM -0700, John Bossert wrote:
> > Gentlemen (and Ladies,) I'm confused.
> > 
> > After perusing the list archives, Googling, etc., I'm still not clear on 
> >  what's necessary to establish a backup across a firewall and/or to 
> > debug the process.
> > 
> > My firewall presently allow unfiltered egress from the Trusted segment 
> > (where the server lives) to the DMZ (where the subject client lives.) 
> > The literature suggests (to me) that the only communication initiated by 
> > the client is UDP and can be controlled with (from my .configure):
> > 
> > --with-udpportrange=850,859
> 
> 
> i've never done this and am unsure of my answer,
> so i'm mailing off-list.


Whoops, hit the wrong key.

If any of the info is inaccurate,
please someone correct it for the list.


> amanda needs some ports available for the initial contact.
> these need to be in the special range below 1024 and i think
> they need to be udp.
> 
> this part you have done.
> (note, it must be on client and server i think)
> 
> but after the initial contact and authentication,
> amanda also needs tcp ports in the non-special range.
> that is where the backup travels.
> so you will have to also open up those firewall ports
> and configure with them.
> 
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> Jon H. LaBadie                  jon AT jgcomp DOT com
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