[Veritas-bu] Using Veritas Netbackup over a firewall

Subject:	[Veritas-bu] Using Veritas Netbackup over a firewall
From:	fx AT Veritas DOT com (fx [François-Xavier Peretmere])
Date:	Wed, 23 May 2001 14:57:39 +0200

> From: Miriam Ben-Haim [mailto:miriam AT techunix.technion.ac DOT il]
> Sent: Tuesday 22 May, 2001 14:14

> We also have firewall, and the backups stopeed working when
> the firewall team blocked the 'ping' ability between the machines.
>
> Apparently NBU doesn't only check 13782 but first tries ping in both
> directions, which we didn't find documented. When ping was
> allowed - the backups worked again.

 strange. i've already successfully set up backups trough firewall,
without any ICMP allowed. afaik, there is no ping between NBU
server and clients.

 fx

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