[AG-TECH] WinXP sp2?
Todd Zimmerman
toddz at sfu.ca
Thu Sep 16 15:42:56 CDT 2004
I should have noted that I'm currently working around the issue by not
using the XP firewall... and using a third party firewall solution
(Kerio Personal).
Todd
--
Collaboration & Visualization Technician
WestGrid - www.westgrid.ca
IRMACS - www.irmacs.com
Ph. 604.268.6979
Todd Zimmerman - toddz at sfu.ca
Todd Zimmerman wrote:
> AG seemed to work on XP-SP2; however, the biggest issue I found is there
> seems to be no way of allowing a block of ports through the XP firewall.
> From what I can see, each port must be individually allowed through the
> firewall....
>
>
> While most of the connections are 'firewall friendly'... the streams use
> RTP port pairs - so you have to tell the firewall about the additional
> connections.
>
> Its not really a practical solution to enter the ports individually if
> the venueserver you are connecting to selects random ports from a range
> 50000 to ~65000.
>
> I've only preliminarily investigated this... however this problem seems
> to be confirmed at this article:
> http://www.winnetmag.com/Windows/Articles/ArticleID/43085/pg/3/3.html
>
> If anyone has a work around I'd be interested to hear!
>
>
>
> Todd
> --
> Collaboration & Visualization Technician
> WestGrid - www.westgrid.ca
> IRMACS - www.irmacs.com
> Ph. 604.268.6979
> Todd Zimmerman - toddz at sfu.ca
>
>
>
> Randy Groves wrote:
>
>> I guess that we can infer from Ivan's comments about 2.3 on sp2 that
>> this is considered a 'supported' environment?
>>
>> Any issues/pointers with setup of the firewall and/or other of the
>> security features?
>>
>> -randy
>>
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