Joshua: You are correct, there is a docs directory in the 2.4.3 tarball and it has the PORTS.USAGE document.
Thanks again. And sorry for disseminating missinformation. -- Dr. Karl Hudnut System Administrator UCAR - COSMIC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cosmic.ucar.edu 303 497 8024 On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > CCed back to the list for the archives... > > On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 at 3:01pm, Karl Hudnut wrote > > > Thanks for your help. I don't seem to have that documentation in any of > > the rpms I have here. It doesn's seem to be in the tarballs from > > amanda.org either. Can you help me find it? > > ?? I just downloaded amanda-2.4.3.tar.gz via the link > <http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/amanda/amanda-2.4.3.tar.gz?download> > on <http://www.amanda.org/download.html> and there's an entire directory > in there called 'docs'. > > > I also wonder if you have any comment on amcheck succeeding and amdump > > failing. > > Amcheck just connects to the amandad port (UDP 10080) on the client. It > doesn't check that the client can actually open the TCP connections back > to the server. > > Grepping through my own mail archives, here's a summary of port usage I > posted back in 2001: > > The amanda server sends a UDP sendbackup request from a privileged port > (not necessarily the same one as above) to port 10080 on the client. > The amanda client sends a UDP ACK from port 10080 to the originating > privileged port on the server. It then sends another one containing the > numbers of three (non-privileged) TCP ports to set up the data, message, > and index connections. > The amanda server sends a UDP ACK from the privileged port to port 10080 > on the client. > The amanda server then initiates three TCP connections on the ports > indicated in the UDP packet from the client. These are on unprivileged > ports on both systems. The dumper on the client then proceeds to start > sending date over the TCP connections. > > -- > Joshua Baker-LePain > Department of Biomedical Engineering > Duke University > >
