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Cant run two Linux Servers behind my firewall at the same time - only one and vice versa.

2007-01-15 14:30:53
Subject: Cant run two Linux Servers behind my firewall at the same time - only one and vice versa.
From: "chuck.amadi" <chuck.amadi AT ntlworld DOT com>
To: amanda <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>, amadi.chuck AT gmail DOT com
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:15:14 +0000
Hi I have two Linux SuSE 9 SLES servers outside of my lan behind a firewall using (I know don't laugh) IPChains. The first server I setup worked without problems by compiling with the tcp and udp port range and changing a parameter in security.c file and increasing the timeout using a ipchain rule, which worked a treat but I have another new server outside and behine a firewall.

Thus when I tried following the same reciepe and compile using the same tcp and udp port range and thus a separate tcp and udp port range to no joy I am unable to get both to work at the same time if I comment out one of the amanda clients within the disklist the other doesn't work and vice versa So I know it is not the setup or configure.

#The timeout is in seconds. If you set the timeout of TCP, TCPFIN
#and UDP to 5 seconds, 5 seconds and 5 seconds, I think they are
#too short.  Please try to set them to 5min, 1min
#and 5min respectively such as 300 60 300.

# ipchains -M -S 300 tcp 60 tcpfin 300 udp works ok.
ipchains -M -S 7200 60 300


I get the Warning: selfcheck request timed out. Host down!. Note that when I comment out one of them amcheck works accordingly I am aware the it's using udp over the firewall But I haven't been able to suss this out I assume that my connection is poor. I have checked both /tmp/amanda/amanda-date.debug and they both moan about timeouts failed But are OK when only one of them
is in use.

Cheers