Add my name to the growing list of people who agree with this point. The sole reason I do not have a working AG venue is IT issues beyond my control.
Brian Julia Mullen wrote: >Good Morning - > >I concur on this point. The firewall ports are really an issue here >at the lab, and in the monthy High Productivity Computing Systems >meetings that we hold. It was also a problem for me when I was at WPI >and working with folks at UMass Medical School - hospitals are >especially loath to open ports - and port closing is the default - it >will only get tighter. > >Just my $0.02 > > Julie > >On 1/30/06, Nagykaldi, Zsolt F. (HSC) <zsolt-nagyka...@ouhsc.edu> wrote: > > >> >>It seems that most practical problems during implementation come from >>firewall issues. Are you guys planning to (at least) narrow the UDP port >>range for VIC and RAT, or maybe (in my dreams) tunnel all audio/video >>traffic through a few number of ports that are usually open? I have been >>networking with a lot of people who are desperate to set up their nodes and >>they hit a brick wall every time it comes to push changes through their IT >>departments, who are freaking out about the idea of opening ports in such a >>wide range. More and more people would like to use the system via PIGs and >>not necessarily big institutional nodes that require weeks, if not months of >>negotiations and arm-twisting each time a new client is added at a new >>location. (The AG Connector would be really helpful, except it causes an >>ominous looping drop of all audio-video connections, as it has been reported >>before, and it is very unreliable). Extra features in v3.0 are nice, but I >>truly believe that the firewall/ports issue is the most significant barrier >>to wider adoption of the Toolkit. >> >> >>Zsolt >> >> >>_ _ _ >> >>Zsolt Nagykaldi, PhD >>Research Associate, Clinical IT Specialist >>University Of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center >>Department Of Family And Preventive Medicine >>Oklahoma Center For Family Medicine Research >> >>900 NE 10th Street >>Oklahoma City, OK 73104 >>Phone: (405) 271-8000 Ext.:1-32212 >>Fax: (405) 271-1682 >> >> > > >
