Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote: > Hi List > > Sorry to nag on is there any suggestions to my post. > > Cheers > > On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 08:27 +0000, chuck.amadi wrote: >> Hi List I was hoping for some direction to my issue with two servers >> behind a firewall running ipchains >> I can backup one or the other but when I uncomment both DLE I get host down. >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> >> chuck.amadi wrote: >> >>> Hi I have two Linux SuSE 9 SLES servers outside of my lan behind a >>> firewall using (I know don't laugh) IPChains. >>> The first server I setup worked without problems by compiling with the >>> tcp and udp port range and changing a parameter in security.c file >>> and increasing the timeout using a ipchain rule, which worked a treat >>> but I have another new server outside and behine a firewall. >>> >>> Thus when I tried following the same reciepe and compile using the >>> same tcp and udp port range and thus a separate tcp and udp port range >>> to no joy I am unable to get both to work at the same time if I >>> comment out one of the amanda clients within the disklist the other >>> doesn't work and vice versa So I know it is not the setup or configure. >>> >>> #The timeout is in seconds. If you set the timeout of TCP, TCPFIN >>> #and UDP to 5 seconds, 5 seconds and 5 seconds, I think they are >>> #too short. Please try to set them to 5min, 1min >>> #and 5min respectively such as 300 60 300. >>> >>> # ipchains -M -S 300 tcp 60 tcpfin 300 udp works ok. >>> ipchains -M -S 7200 60 300 >>> >>> >>> I get the Warning: selfcheck request timed out. Host down!. Note that >>> when I comment out one of them amcheck works accordingly >>> I am aware the it's using udp over the firewall But I haven't been >>> able to suss this out I assume that my connection is poor. >>> I have checked both /tmp/amanda/amanda-date.debug and they both moan >>> about timeouts failed But are OK when only one of them >>> is in use.
Any chance your firewall is dong NAT, and mapping both clients to the same IP? Frank >>> >>> Cheers >>> >> -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
