[AG-TECH] Direction of communication with a Virtual Venue Server

Robert Olson olson at mcs.anl.gov
Fri Sep 26 10:28:47 CDT 2003


At 12:12 AM 9/27/2003 +0900, shudo at ni.aist.go.jp wrote:
>I suppose AGTk 2.x needs establishment of TCP connections initiated by
>a Virtual Venue Server and it is the cause of the problem I'm facing.
>I guess it because the AG node can use a VV server that I run locally
>on the inside of our firewall.
>
>Is this correct?  If so, it's natural that AGTk 2.x do not work in our
>network configuration.  And I have to ask our network administrators
>to change the configuration of the firewall.

The AG client should, for all of the basic functionality, make only 
outgoing connections. Things that won't work are lead/follow and personal 
data on the client behind the firewall.

Are you able to ping the venue server from your machine? Which venue server 
were you trying to contact?

--bob 




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