Brian Corrie wrote: > I think the only issue is how often would there be changes in the IP > number and ports used. Whenever this happens, anyone that has firewall > setting that enables AG will need to make changes, which is a > significant impact on the community. I am currently trying to get everybody in a relatively small group of people set up with AG clients on laptops etc. Despite being 'conceptually' easy, it is difficult to explain to everybody the varying bridge IP addresses and port ranges AND convince them to go to their system folks to open up these ports AND do it themselves on their local firewalls, their NAT boxes at home etc. When things change as recently with the Argonne bridge's IP address ( even though it is for good reasons) many "users" will likely consider it a major annoyance to go through the above steps again. While it is nice for the bridge administrators to have the freedom of choosing any port ranges they like this freedom does not help "ease of use" for people who expect the AG client setup to be simple and don't want to fiddle with network details. I expect something like a "standard" (shudder!) port range for the bridges would help a lot. These are my totally uninformed 2 cents.
Jean -- Jean Utke Argonne National Lab./MCS u...@mcs.anl.gov phone: 630 252 4552 cell: 630 363 5753