Hi List

Sorry to nag on is there any suggestions to my post.

Cheers

On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 08:27 +0000, chuck.amadi wrote:
> Hi List I was hoping for some direction to my issue with two servers 
> behind a firewall running ipchains
> I can backup one or the other but when I uncomment both DLE I get host down.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
> chuck.amadi wrote:
> 
> > 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
> >
> 
> 
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