[AG-TECH] AG behind firewall

Don Morton morton at cs.umt.edu
Fri Sep 20 11:05:06 CDT 2002


bernholdtde at ornl.gov wrote:
> 
> I'm going to setup a PIG-ish (piggy?) node on a network that's behind
> our multcast-unfriendly firewall.  My plan was to QuickBridge to an
> ORNL machine sitting outside the firewall.  I have a few questions...
> 
> 1) Are there any performance issues for the bridge machine?
>    Presumably its basically just forwarding packets, and so just
>    requires a good network card.  Any recommendations?

Jeremy has set one up in Missoula on a 100MHz Linux machine, and 
it's worked well for at least a couple of connections.  



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