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Iain Rae iainr@inf.ed.ac.uk
Mon, 13 Jan 2003 06:00:05 -0800 (PST)
cfowler wrote: > I'll give more insight to why I did this. It is almost impossible for > me to gain access to my consoles over a firewall. You see the the main > process offers me port 1024 then adds 1 each new connection. I can not > open up 1024 - 1096 or whatever on my firewall. What we've done is made > it simple. Now the process only uses 783 and 782 ports and no more. > This may not be an issue for some but was for us. Maybe this behavior > is something that can be looked at in 8.0 version. Having 2 possible > ports are okay but having a N number of possible ports, IMHO are not. > If you only have one console server you could ssh onto the console server and run console via the loopback address. Doing it with more that one is also possible (but a bit convoluted). -- Iain Rae Tel:01316505202 Computing Officer JCMB:2418 School of Informatics The University of Edinburgh