Keep in mind that NBU has to be able to do a reverse lookup and match it
with the name lookup.
Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: fx [François-Xavier Peretmere] [mailto:fx AT veritas DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 4:34 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] RE: Veritas-bu digest, Vol 1 #282 - 11 msgs


N> From: Dana Bourgeois [mailto:Dana AT slamdunknetworks DOT com]
> Sent: Wednesday 14 February, 2001 17:21

> 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.

 yes but no. depends the kind of NAT you're using. if you're
doing 1 -> 1 or n -> m, it could work. if you're doing n -> 1,
it won't never work, as from the server point of vue, all clients
seem to come from the same IP address.

 the underlying thing is that NB connection depends on
its capacity to associate a name and an IP address. that's why
everything that mess with IP <-> name relation will complicate
NB work: Linux/*BSD ipfw, *BSD ipnat, Cisco PIX and so on, once
again, depending the configuration.

 Amicalement,
             fx

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