[Swift-user] Running swift from firewalled host

[Mihael Hategan]

On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 12:29 -0600, Michael Wilde wrote:
> On 11/16/08 11:39 AM, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 11:25 -0600, Michael Wilde wrote:
> >> Will swift running on a host with limited inbound port connectivity be 
> >> able to run jobs on a WS-GRAM site?
> >>
> >> Based on the Globus firewall wiki page
> > 
> > Link?
> 
> http://dev.globus.org/wiki/FirewallHowTo
> 
> >>  seems it should work (see below), 
> >> but thought I would ask before trying it.
> >>
> >> - Mike
> >>
> >> WS-GRAM:
> >>
> >> Connections back to client (controllable ephemeral port to controllable 
> >> ephemeral port) required if executable or data staged from client or 
> >> output from job sent back to client.
> >>
> >> ^^^ I assume Swift does not do either of these?
> > 
> > Yes, however what that text fails to mention is that only polling for
> > job status will work (not notifications). Swift does not use polling, so
> > you need a an open port for the notification server.
> 
> Alas. So no way to run Swift-to-Globus from a host that you cant open up 
>   "controllable" ephemeral ports (like GLOBUS_TCP_PORT_RANGE) on, it seems?

Right