[AG-TECH] Access Grid 3.0 beta1 available !

Julia Mullen julia.mullen at gmail.com
Mon Jan 30 09:56:14 CST 2006


Good Morning -

I concur on this point.  The firewall ports are really an issue here
at the lab, and in the monthy High Productivity Computing Systems
meetings that we hold.  It was also a problem for me when I was at WPI
and working with folks at UMass Medical School - hospitals are
especially loath to open ports - and port closing is the default - it
will only get tighter.

Just my $0.02

 Julie

On 1/30/06, Nagykaldi, Zsolt F. (HSC) <Zsolt-Nagykaldi at ouhsc.edu> wrote:
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> It seems that most practical problems during implementation come from
> firewall issues. Are you guys planning to (at least) narrow the UDP port
> range for VIC and RAT, or maybe (in my dreams) tunnel all audio/video
> traffic through a few number of ports that are usually open? I have been
> networking with a lot of people who are desperate to set up their nodes and
> they hit a brick wall every time it comes to push changes through their IT
> departments, who are freaking out about the idea of opening ports in such a
> wide range. More and more people would like to use the system via PIGs and
> not necessarily big institutional nodes that require weeks, if not months of
> negotiations and arm-twisting each time a new client is added at a new
> location. (The AG Connector would be really helpful, except it causes an
> ominous looping drop of all audio-video connections, as it has been reported
> before, and it is very unreliable). Extra features in v3.0 are nice, but I
> truly believe that the firewall/ports issue is the most significant barrier
> to wider adoption of the Toolkit.
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> 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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> Oklahoma City, OK 73104
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