On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:18:55AM -0400, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 4:51 AM, Gunnarsson, Gunnar
> <Gunnar.Gunnarsson AT svk DOT se> wrote:
> > If portrange settings are changed in the server part with
> >
> >  --with-tcpportrange=50000,50100 --with-udpportrange=840,860
> >
> >  how does it effect the clients - do they need to be recompiled as well ?
> 
> This affects the range of source ports used for "reverse" connections;
> on the server, it will affect the source ports used for reverse
> connections to amrecover.  On the client, it will affect the source
> ports used for reverse connections back to the server.  As long as the
> ranges are large enough to accomodate the parallelism used in Amanda,
> the only implication of these ranges is for firewall rules.
> 
> Dustin

So, is that a "no, the clients need not be recompiled"?
Or maybe "yes, unconditionally"?
Or maybe "yes, if you want to use amrecover from the client"?

jl
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