netbackup will work through a firewall.  It will not work through NAT.  NAT
will fool it into trying to connect directly to the firewall which is not
what you want and the firewall will never allow and which wouldn't work
properly even if you let it happen.

When the netbackup people talk about netbackup working through a proxy, they
don't mean NAT.  I now connect through our firewall since we removed NAT on
that interface.  Other protocols work better too.


Dana Bourgeois
Slam Dunk Networks 
Digital Mechanic & Network Janitor
1.650.632-5543
1.650.996-5687  [cell]



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> 
> Message: 2
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> From: "Ian M Terry" <ITerry AT cyberdialogue DOT com>
> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 18:01:00 -0500
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] firewall between master and media servers
> 
> we recently added a second media server on the other side of a firewall as
> our master server.  i've followed the directions specified in a particular
> Server and Client Connections paper we received from Veritas directly, but
> we've had little luck in actually getting it to work thus far.
> 
> the master and media servers are both running solaris 2.6 ... and can talk
> with each other via firewall rules - but that's about it.  netbackup exits
> with some funky errors, from 219 (storage unit unavail) to griping about
> not being able to connect to the firewall machine.  bpcd logs have yielded
> little more.
> 
> i know this is a bit vague, but i was just curious if anyone else out
there
> has a firewall somewhere in their setup and knows a few tips or tricks to
> get things up and rocking.
> 
> thanks much in advance,
> -ian
> 
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