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
