Coupla good tech notes:

Firewalls between master and media servers: 251631
Firewalls between master/media and clients: 237796

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On 4/30/03 11:09 AM, "Chris Costa" <chris.costa AT veritas DOT com> wrote:

> What you can try is to open vnetd (13724) from the Master to the Media
> Server.  Also open up the bpcd (13782) from Media Server to Master Server.
> 
> After that you need to go the Master Server Properties and go to the
> firewall section. Enter the hostname of the Media Server and select the "No
> Call Back" option.
> You will need to stop and start services afterwards.
> 
> This works for us at the site that I am on.
> 
> Christopher C. Costa
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:     Jeremy Taylor [mailto:jtaylor AT ithaca DOT edu]
> Sent:    Wednesday, April 30, 2003 10:34 AM
> To:    Tina Likens2
> Cc:    veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject:    Re: [Veritas-bu] Firewall Ports - Which ones?
> 
> Hi Tina,
> 
> I am currently dealing with a very similar situation and am quickly
> getting confused and overwhelmed too, NB uses so many ports!  I have not
> configured much yet (except an attempt at using vnetd - more below) so
> it's all in the theory stage still.  The NB 4.5 docs have quite an
> extensive description of ports, network communication, and firewall
> configuration but it sounds like they may not be all that helpful.  You
> may want to check out the option of using vnetd which does all the port
> translation at the system level and therefore only requires one port
> (13724) opened up on a firewall.  **However this option did not work for
> me because our firewall incorporates NAT which will not work for vnetd.
> Unfortunately I had to find that out after tons of testing and
> document reading...ahh!
> 
> Anyway I know I didn't give you much help but I will share info as I get
> it and keep an eye out on this list...
> -jeremy
> 
> Tina Likens2 wrote:
>> We have configuration of
>> 
>> *Unix Master Server (Solaris 8)
>>  Behind a Firewall
>> 
>> *3 Media Servers (Windows)
>> 
>> *Running NetBackup 4.5 FP 3
>> 
>> We cannot seem to get a good answer as to exactly which ports need to be
>> opened in the Firewall to communicate between the Master and the Media
>> Servers. 
>> 
>> Anybody that can give any ideas, we would be extremely grateful. Been
>> working on this for months and can't seem to get it all together yet.
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks in Advance.
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