[Swift-user] using swift in an IP-impoverished environment

[Mihael Hategan]

On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 15:59 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> > 2. Run behind NAT/Firewall. I found a document describing client-side
> > reqs for this kind of situation here
> > (http://dev.globus.org/wiki/FirewallHowTo section called "Network
> > Address Translation (NAT)").
> > Does anyone have experience in running swift in this mode?
> 
> I've never run it from behind a NAT.
> 

I do that fairly often.

It involves forwarding a range of ports (a hundred of them or more) to
your "submit" machine, setting GLOBUS_TCP_PORT_RANGE to that range and
making sure that GLOBUS_HOSTNAME has your external IP address.