Hi List Sorry to nag on is there any suggestions to my post.
Cheers On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 08:27 +0000, chuck.amadi wrote: > Hi List I was hoping for some direction to my issue with two servers > behind a firewall running ipchains > I can backup one or the other but when I uncomment both DLE I get host down. > > Thanks in advance. > > > chuck.amadi wrote: > > > Hi I have two Linux SuSE 9 SLES servers outside of my lan behind a > > firewall using (I know don't laugh) IPChains. > > The first server I setup worked without problems by compiling with the > > tcp and udp port range and changing a parameter in security.c file > > and increasing the timeout using a ipchain rule, which worked a treat > > but I have another new server outside and behine a firewall. > > > > Thus when I tried following the same reciepe and compile using the > > same tcp and udp port range and thus a separate tcp and udp port range > > to no joy I am unable to get both to work at the same time if I > > comment out one of the amanda clients within the disklist the other > > doesn't work and vice versa So I know it is not the setup or configure. > > > > #The timeout is in seconds. If you set the timeout of TCP, TCPFIN > > #and UDP to 5 seconds, 5 seconds and 5 seconds, I think they are > > #too short. Please try to set them to 5min, 1min > > #and 5min respectively such as 300 60 300. > > > > # ipchains -M -S 300 tcp 60 tcpfin 300 udp works ok. > > ipchains -M -S 7200 60 300 > > > > > > I get the Warning: selfcheck request timed out. Host down!. Note that > > when I comment out one of them amcheck works accordingly > > I am aware the it's using udp over the firewall But I haven't been > > able to suss this out I assume that my connection is poor. > > I have checked both /tmp/amanda/amanda-date.debug and they both moan > > about timeouts failed But are OK when only one of them > > is in use. > > > > Cheers > > > > -- Unix/ Linux Systems Administrator Chuck Amadi The Surgical Material Testing Laboratory (SMTL), Princess of Wales Hospital Coity Road Bridgend, United Kingdom, CF31 1RQ. Email chuck.smtl.co.uk Tel: +44 1656 752820 Fax: +44 1656 752830
