[AG-TECH] NCSA unicast bridge changes

Nagykaldi, Zsolt F. (HSC) Zsolt-Nagykaldi at ouhsc.edu
Mon Apr 10 14:16:14 CDT 2006


 
Anybody knows if recent NCSA venue bridge changes (roebridge is gone, accessbridge is on) are temporary or pretty much permanent? Thanks.
 
Zsolt
 
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Zsolt Nagykaldi, PhD
Research Associate, Clinical IT Specialist
University Of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Department Of Family And Preventive Medicine
Oklahoma Center For Family Medicine Research
 
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From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov on behalf of Andrew A Rowley
Sent: Fri 4/7/2006 3:00 AM
To: Masullo, Chris F; ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] Firewall and unicast questions



Hi,

I know of various places that are running AG from behind a firewall using both multicast and unicast. 

Using unicast means that you add strain to the bridge for the venue.  However, I have not seen any bridges fail under strain so far (others may have seen this).  The other problem with unicast and firewalls is the port numbers.  The bridges will be assigned random port numbers within a fixed range, so the only way to guarantee that you will be able to use the bridge is to open up the entire range.  This range will depend on the venue server.  Of course with dynamic multicast venues, you would have the same problem, however, with static venues, you could at least open the fixed port numbers in use.  AG Connector can also help with the port number problem, since it only uses a single fixed port.

The only other problem I have seen with firewalls, is when the firewall cannot cope with the amount of traffic passing with large AG meetings.  It is worth finding out what bandwidth the firewall can cope with if you regularly join large meetings.

Andrew :)

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On
> Behalf Of Masullo, Chris F
> Sent: 06 April 2006 17:04
> To: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: [AG-TECH] Firewall and unicast questions
>
> Hello All,
>
> We currently have our AG nodes outside our firewall, however cyber
> security
> has told us that we need to move the systems inside our firewall.  The
> last
> time I brought up this issue a number of years ago I was told that
> multicast
> would not get past our firewall. I have some questions regarding this
> issue.
>
> Has anyone successfully placed an AG VTC system behind a Cisco Firewall?
> Are there any issues using unicast mode for and AG node behind a
> firewall?
> If not then why not run unicast?
>
> I have looked through the mailer however I do not see any answers to
> these
> Questions.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
>
> Chris Masullo                     Information Technology Division
> Brookhaven National Laboratory    Network Engineering & Operations
> 61 Brookhaven Ave.                Phone:  (631) 344-2326
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