Subject | RE: [firebird-support] Re: Events and Firewall again |
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Author | Alan McDonald |
Post date | 2005-08-17T10:37:43Z |
> Hi, Alan.Thanks Fabiano - no - I haven't tried that yet, but I will. I just thought
>
> I installed SS in my office server to try this stuff about events. I
> changed 'RemoteAuxPort' to 3060. Then i did several tests to see if
> events were working, and just one doesn´t worked. I'm running the test
> application from my home.
>
> Test 1:
>
> I changed my office firewall to forward incoming traffic on port 3050
> and 3060 to the same ports on the FB server. I runned the test
> application, connecting direct to my office IP address. It worked.
>
> For the next tests, i disabled the port forward in my office firewall.
>
> Test 2:
>
> I connected to my office server via Putty (SSH), and created 2 tunnels
> between the server ports 3050 and 3060 and my home computer, using the
> same ports locally (note this is the same way zebedee works). I runned
> the test application, connecting to 127.0.0.1/3050:test_db. It worked
> also.
>
> Test 3:
>
> I connected to my office server via Putty (SSH), and created 2 tunnels
> between the server ports 3050 and 3060 and my home computer, using the
> local ports 3051 and 3061 respectivelly (maybe your zebedee is using
> different ports between the servers?). I runned the test application,
> connecting to 127.0.0.1/3051:test_db. It doesn´t worked, because the
> FB client knows it have to connect to port 3060 to receive events, but
> my tunnel was using port 3061. So, at least for the event port, when
> you are using a tunnel, you have to use the same port as the
> 'RemoteAuxPort' configure in the FB server.
>
> Conclusion:
>
> To use zebedee, you have to estabilish 2 zebedee conections to your
> server. One to the port 3050, the other to the port configured in
> 'RemoteAuxPort'. The local port, at least for the second connection,
> need to be the same as the 'RemoteAuxPort'. It makes some time i don´t
> use zebedee, so i can´t give some examples. Have you tried this
> configuration?
>
> Regards,
>
> Fabiano.
that I could make the standard (3050) connection via zebedee and use the
events port ( declred in .conf) as it is (i.e. not encrypted and not using
zebedee).
Alan