True as long as your firewall does not do NAT... I found that out the 
hard way.
-jeremy


Jennifer C. Green wrote:
> There is a procedure in the manual for using vnetd which allows you to only
> open a few ports for media server and 1 port for clients.  I have not
> personally done it so dont have any opinion about it but have heard it works
> as advertised.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Grabbe" <GRABBEB AT dominos DOT com>
> To: <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 8:46 AM
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Media server through a firewall ?
> 
> 
> 
>>I've seen enough posts about backing up clients through a firewall to
>>know that it's not something I really want to do. Has anyone any
>>experience with a master server on an internal network and a media
>>server on the other side of a firewall, though ? We are looking to
>>replace a Backup Exec server on the DMZ with a Netbackup server, and
>>control it with our Master NBU server that is internal.
>>Env now is:
>>NBU 4.5 master w/ Vault, Ndmp.
>>Stek 9740 w/ 8 DLT7000 drives
>>Adic Scalar 100 w/ 4 drives being controlled by:
>>Win2000 media server, NBU 4.5
>>And 2 other drives connected to a Netapp filer.
>>Will be adding another Win2K media server to control 2 of the LTO
>>drives.
>>
>>What I would plan on doing is another Win2k media server on the DMZ
>>with another Adic library attached to it. What I see as the problem is
>>the control information going from the master to the media server.
>>Any help will be appreciated.
>>Bob Grabbe
>>Dominos Pizza LLC
>>grabbeb AT dominos DOT com
>>
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Jeremy Taylor
Systems Administrator
OIT / Administrative Systems
Ithaca College