As Erich says, the workstation initiates the update, not the server. The usual loc->net ACCEPT policy therefore allows the connection.

-Tom

--On Wednesday, January 29, 2003 5:08 PM -0600 "Henning, Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

why isn't that stopped by the firewall?

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--On Wednesday, January 29, 2003 11:40 PM +0100 Erich Titl
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AFAIK LiveUpdate is initiated from the station that requests it, so
normally you don't need to set up anything as this is related traffic.

Correct -- I have LiveUpdate running here on two systems without any
special firewalling measures.

-Tom
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