On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 11:06:42 -0600
"Redell, Greg S." <greg.redell AT GWL DOT COM> wrote:

> So if you were going to open holes in a firewall, what ports would you
> open for the data to go through?  Given that statement about the client
> source port, you could not definitively say what port it is going to
> come over
>

you know it is going to connect to <ip of tsm server> port 1500, so that is
what you open up on your firewall, as is the case for http, ftp, telnet,
smtp, pop3, ldap or any other protocol, client source ports are completely
irrelevant....


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Remco Post [mailto:r.post AT SARA DOT NL]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 11:03 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: What do these numbers mean ?
>
> On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 11:57:13 -0500
> Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU <zforray AT VCU DOT EDU> wrote:
>
> > Thank you (and Richard).
> >
> > But I am still a little confused on why these numbers vary soooooo
> much.
> >
> > Besides, I thought the PORT number is 1500/1501 ?   That is what is
> > configured ?
>
> The TSM server port (dest) is 1500 per default. The clients source port
> is
> random and usually somewhere between 32768 and 65535.
>
> The TSM client listener is usually on port 1501.
>
> >
> > Is this a firewall thing ?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Karel Bos <Karel.Bos AT NUON DOT COM>
> > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
> > 02/04/2004 11:18 AM
> > Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"
> >
> >
> >         To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> >         cc:
> >         Subject:        Re: What do these numbers mean ?
> >
> >
> > TCP portnumber.
> >
> >
> > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> > Van: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:zforray AT VCU DOT EDU]
> > Verzonden: woensdag 4 februari 2004 17:18
> > Aan: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> > Onderwerp: What do these numbers mean ?
> >
> >
> > We are having problems getting a Linux client to perform backups (see
> my
> > earlier message that has not been responded to...yet !).
> >
> > What do the numbers after the DNS name mean and how are they relevant
> ?
> > Sometimes the numbers are 4-digits....other times 5 ??
> >
> > 2/4/2004 10:36:48 AM ANR0406I Session 42860 started for node
> AJAX.VCU.EDU
> > (Linux86) (Tcp/Ip ajax.vcu.edu(57262)).
>
>
> --
> Met vriendelijke groeten,
>
> Remco Post
>
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