I am running amanda server 2.5.2p1 on a Solaris 10 sparc and the remote client is a RH 5.2. On the client I am using the precompiled amanda that comes with RH 5.2.
I was having problem that I narrowed down to the firewall iptables and ports on the RH client. My iptables file looked like -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -s 128.210.3.177 -m tcp -p tcp --dport 10080 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -s 128.210.3.177 -m udp -p udp --dport 10080 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -s 128.210.4.177 -m tcp -p tcp --dport 10080 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -s 128.210.4.177 -m udp -p udp --dport 10080 -j ACCEPT and ³amcheck c daily remoteclient² would return ok but when I ran amdump it would get ³cannot connect² errors in the dumper. Looking at the dumper log file I tracked down the problem to ports being used by dumper that were not set up in the firewall iptables. To prove this I modified my iptables to the following: -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -s 128.210.3.177 -m tcp -p tcp --dport 10080:60000 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -s 128.210.3.177 -m udp -p udp --dport 10080:60000 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -s 128.210.4.177 -m tcp -p tcp --dport 10080:60000 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -s 128.210.4.177 -m udp -p udp --dport 10080:60000 -j ACCEPT With this iptables file the backup ran as expected. In my reading in the zmanda wiki I found information about ip_conntrack_amand and I see what it does but not sure how to set this up. Is ip_conntrack_amanda some module or code and if so where would it be located. If anyone is using this can you please shead a little more light on how this is used. Thanks Robert -- Robert P. McGraw, Jr. Manager, Computer System EMAIL: [email protected] Purdue University ROOM: MATH-807 Department of Mathematics PHONE: (765) 494-6055 150 N. University Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067
