Re: Still hoping for answer for amanda port usage

2004-09-16 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 10:49:04PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: > But here you can always fall back to amrestore + ssh (or netcat) > initiated from the server, without altering firewall rules. Fair enough. But all this is beside my original point, which was simply a warning not to fall into the tra

Re: Still hoping for answer for amanda port usage

2004-09-16 Thread Paul Bijnens
Eric Siegerman wrote: On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 08:56:15PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: I thought that the tape server initiates ALL the connections (and hence client==listener). It looks as though that's the case for backups, but amrecover initiates TCP connections to the tape server. Yes, indeed. But

Re: Still hoping for answer for amanda port usage

2004-09-16 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 08:56:15PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: > I thought that the tape server > initiates ALL the connections (and hence client==listener). It looks as though that's the case for backups, but amrecover initiates TCP connections to the tape server. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Sieg

Re: Still hoping for answer for amanda port usage

2004-09-16 Thread KEVIN ZEMBOWER
Oh, just to make sure I understand correctly what you're saying: The 1008x ports are not compiled into the program by any of the '--with-???portrange' configuration options. Instead, they're determined at run-time by examining the entries in /etc/service. That makes a lot of sense, but I didn't

Re: Still hoping for answer for amanda port usage

2004-09-16 Thread Paul Bijnens
Eric Siegerman wrote: [... excellent explanation of port usage ...] Note (and this I *am* sure of) that in Amanda, it is not dependable that initiator==client and listener==server. The client initiates some connections, but the tape server initiates others. Are you really sure about this? I thoug

Re: Still hoping for answer for amanda port usage

2004-09-16 Thread Frank Smith
--On Thursday, September 16, 2004 09:59:46 -0400 KEVIN ZEMBOWER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Frank, thanks for your work and efforts to help me with my problem. Please see > my remarks, preceded by "***" (stupid GroupWise email client won't quote correctly), > below. -Kevin > Frank

Re: Still hoping for answer for amanda port usage

2004-09-16 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 03:28:21PM -0400, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote: > There was one comment that ports 10080-10083 are fixed, no > matter what --with-???portrange switches are used. Is this fact > or fiction? (c) Neither of the above :-) The 1008x ports are not affected by the --with-*portrange optio

Re: Still hoping for answer for amanda port usage

2004-09-16 Thread KEVIN ZEMBOWER
Hi, Frank, thanks for your work and efforts to help me with my problem. Please see my remarks, preceded by "***" (stupid GroupWise email client won't quote correctly), below. -Kevin >>> Frank Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/15/04 07:34PM >>> --On Wednesday, September 15, 2004 15:28:21 -0400 KEVIN Z

Re: Still hoping for answer for amanda port usage

2004-09-15 Thread Frank Smith
--On Wednesday, September 15, 2004 15:28:21 -0400 KEVIN ZEMBOWER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The discussion's petered out on my request for which ports to ask the firewall > administrator to open to allow amanda to work through our firewall, but I'm still > hoping for an answer, as I still can

Still hoping for answer for amanda port usage

2004-09-15 Thread KEVIN ZEMBOWER
The discussion's petered out on my request for which ports to ask the firewall administrator to open to allow amanda to work through our firewall, but I'm still hoping for an answer, as I still can't come up with one myself. There was one comment that ports 10080-10083 are fixed, no matter what