Turns out this was a silly mistake, I was using the "firewall" tab
instead of the "client attributes" tab, this has been corrected and is
now working as expected.

Thanks to all for the help!

Bruce

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 15:11:55 +0100
Bruce Givens <bgivens AT verio DOT net> wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I am attempting to set up vnetd between a master/media server
> (Solaris) and client (Linux), both at 4.5FP3, currently no firewall is
> between client and server.
> 
> I have made the GUI changes described in the SysAd Guide, creating a
> client entry in the firewall section of the server properties dialog
> and selecting no connect-back, resulting in the entry
> CONNECT_OPTIONS = client 0 1 2
> in bp.conf of the master/media server.
> 
> The connections I see via netstat when attempting to back up are as
> follows:
> 
> tcp        0  50680 client:678        server:4803       ESTABLISHED 
> tcp        0      0 client:1003       server:13724      ESTABLISHED 
> tcp        1      0 client:13782      server:925        CLOSE_WAIT
> 
> Does anyone have an idea where that first connection is coming from? I
> have tried numerous times and a third connection is always opened on
> seemingly random port numbers. I have tried this setup through a
> firewall, and backups are not working because of that connection being
> dropped.
> 
> I have also tried "CONNECT_OPTIONS = client 0 1 1", with a restart of
> the NetBackup daemons just in case, the random connection is still
> made.
> 
> Have I forgotten something or have I misunderstood the concept of
> vnetd?
> 
> Thanks,
> Bruce
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