That's what I was thinking - I won't have access to the host till later
today, but will give it a try and let you know how it works out.

Thanks,

Tim

On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 5:34 AM, Martin Paul <martin.p...@univie.ac.at>
wrote:

> It's been such a long time, even I have to read the docs to look up the
> configuration :)
>
> It should work by setting xrefurl and patchurl in the secondary PCA
> proxy's pca-proxy.conf to point at the primary PCA proxy, like this:
>
>  # Get everything from the proxy
>  patchurl=http://www.networkA.org:8888/patches/pca-proxy.cgi
>  xrefurl=http://www.networkA.org:8888/patches/pca-proxy.cgi
>
> (actual URLs, ports and paths of course depend on your setup - basically
> the same setup you use on the clients in networkA).
>
> Clients in networkB will access the proxy in networkB, which contacts the
> PCA proxy in networkA, which gets the patches from Oracle.
>
> hth,
> Martin.
>
> Am 13.03.2017 um 10:19 schrieb Tim Hosfelt:
>
>> That's exactly what I want to do, but not sure how to do it.
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 4:39 AM, Martin Paul <martin.p...@univie.ac.at
>> <mailto:martin.p...@univie.ac.at>> wrote:
>>
>>     Am 10.03.2017 um 18:36 schrieb Tim Hosfelt:
>>
>>         In my environment I have networks separated by firewalls.  In
>> network A
>>         I have
>>         successfully set up a PCA Patch server via proxy and all hosts on
>>         network A can
>>         update via PCA.  In network B I have no access to a proxy server,
>> but my
>>         network
>>         team did open port 8888 through the firewall for a single host -
>> is
>>         there a way
>>         to set up the single host on network B to relay requests to the
>> PCA
>>         Patch server
>>         in network A?
>>
>>
>>     Not sure if I understand your firewall setup correctly, but one
>> solution
>>     might be to build a cascade of PCA proxy servers. You'd configure the
>> one in
>>     network B to access the one in network A.
>>
>>     hth,
>>     Martin.
>>
>>
>>
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