Thanks Stephen, I am trying to convince the company I am working for to use
VNet for its multi-user stuff. One problem they have is the firewall
stumbling block. It is not a problem peculiar to VNet of course, but VNet
offers something that no other mu solution does: the ability to work on the
code.
It looks like they will be paying me to work on the VNet code. One of the
things I like about that is that any changes or improvements I make will
feed back into the free code and we all benefit. (Only trouble is that I am
not really much of a java programmer :)
Best wishes,
- Miriam
At 12:00 PM 31/01/2001 -0500, stephen white wrote:
>you'll have to pick a port on which the firewall doesn't block
>traffic. the problem with using the http port (80) is that, due to
>the java sandbox, clients have to connect to the same machine from
>which they downloaded the applet. it's not possible to have two
>applications listen on the same port, so you'd have to figure a way
>around that. also, on unix at least, you need root permission to open
>ports below 1024, so the vnet server would have to be running as root.
>
>you really need two different ports on the same machine, which
>won't be blocked by the firewall. check with your network admin
>to find out which ones are free.
>
>stephen
>
> stephen f. white
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Miriam English" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "stephen f white" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 8:57 PM
>Subject: firewalls
>
>
> > Hi Stephen,
> >
> > I was wondering why VNet is blocked by firewalls, and if it would be
> > possible to make it work thru firewalls by using the same ports that
>normal
> > web traffic uses. If that makes it hard to recognise the packets,
>would it
> > be possible to give some special ID to the packets so that they are
>easily
> > picked up by VNet?
> >
> > I think I will send this query to the vnet list too as there may be
>others
> > doing battle with this dragon too.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > - Miriam
> >
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