I read the portusage in the documentation but it doesn't give
specific information about the ports but rather a broad range.
I will check to see what options amanda was compiled with and
go from there. Thanks for your help.
-Paul
---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 10:04:50 +0200
>From: Paul Bijnens <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
>Subject: Re: Amanda Over Firewall
>To: vandep01 AT student.ucr DOT edu
>Cc: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org, ruschein AT infomine.ucr DOT edu
>
>Paul Vander Griend wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We are trying to get Amanda to work over a firewall but are
>> having a lot of trouble. Could anyone tell me what amanda
>> requires to successfuly backup over a firewall? Right now I
>> allow machines on the firewalled network to talk to the amanda
>> server on port 10080. What other traffic is required?
>
>Have you read this:
>
> http://www.amanda.org/docs/portusage.html
>
>Also, if the firewall is a recent ipfilter implementation,
>you can load the ip_conntrack_amanda filter module (and, if
needed,
>ip_nat_amanda), in which case only opening the 10080 port is
sufficient
>for a client. Note some older versions of these modules had
>bugs.
>I'm not sure if those ipfilter modules are sufficient for a
restore
>with amrecover, which uses port 10082, and 10083 from client
to server.
>
>Also note the long timeout you may need to set for the udp reply
>packet in the connection tracking (e.g. FW-1 defaults to 40
seconds
>for UDP replies, but amanda needs a value equal to "etimeout"
>in the amanda.conf.)
>
>
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