[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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