[Spread-users] firewall rules...

Theo Schlossnagle jesus at omniti.com
Thu Jun 23 10:15:11 EDT 2005


Bill Scherer wrote:

> Hello -
>
> Does anyone know what is needed to get spread through a firewall?
>
> I had thought allowing 4803:tcp through was enough, but it appears I 
> need 4803:udp also.

And 4804:udp too for the token.  Spread uses:

port tcp for sessions
port udp for broadcast traffic
port+1 udp for token passing.

and of course, /tmp/port over AF_UNIX on unix/linux boxes -- if you have 
local host ACLs.

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