He';s still going to need to open his 600 port though.

Thanks,

Ron DuFresne

On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Ng, Kenneth (US) wrote:

> Allow ssh to go through instead.  The user will log onto the machine via
> ssh.  ssh will set the DISPLAY environment variable so that when apps are
> started up, they tunnel back to the user's workstation.  On the whole I
> think this is a better way to do it if you need X.  Also works great if you
> need to run through NAT.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noonan, Wesley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 11:49 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Permiting X through a PIX
> 
> 
> Hello all. I need some advice from the experts around here.
> 
> I have a situation where I have a PIX with 4 interfaces. 2 are inside and
> outside and 2 are considered DMZ1 and DMZ2. DMZ2 is a higher security than
> DMZ1 (thus all traffic is permitted outbound from DMZ2 to DMZ1). We have
> various machines on DMZ2 than need to access 2 servers on DMZ1 via X. For
> some reason this is not working, and unfortunately, I am not a Unix guru and
> know very little about X. My suspicion is that X requires that the target
> machine (the server) be able to send data back to the clients, which of
> course is being blocked by the firewall.
> 
> Here is a little diagram
>                                  Server2
> DMZ2----PIX----DMZ1---[
>                        Server1
> 
> So, what I am wondering is how to proceed. I am pretty sure that X uses TCP
> and UDP 6000-6063. Based on that, one of my ideas is to setup a conduit as
> follows:
> Conduit permit tcp 172.16.0.0 255.255.255.0 range 6000 6063 host 172.16.1.2
> Conduit permit udp 172.16.0.0 255.255.255.0 range 6000 6063 host 172.16.1.2
> Conduit permit tcp 172.16.0.0 255.255.255.0 range 6000 6063 host 172.16.1.3
> Conduit permit udp 172.16.0.0 255.255.255.0 range 6000 6063 host 172.16.1.3
> 
> The other idea is to use the established command, but I am not very familiar
> with it's use.
> 
> Any ideas? TIA
> 
> Wes Noonan, MCSE/MCT/CCNA/NNCSS
> Senior QA Rep.
> BMC Software, Inc.
> (713) 918-2412
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.bmc.com
> 
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