Amanda and the firewall

[Neil Marjoram]

I am having a little hair pulling trouble setting up the firewall for 
Amanda backups.

I am attempting to use my Amanda server to backup a client which has the 
firewall installed, so far without much luck.

If anyone has got this to work or can advise me on what rules are needed 
I would be truly grateful.

I know so far that amanda will send a backup request on port 10080, this 
rule I've got.

Then the client will send back on a random udp port, this should be ok 
as I don't block any outbound traffic.

But now amanda returns to the client with three random tcp port 
connections, this is where I fail I think - someone suggested using 
connection tracking, but I don't really know enough about this.

Thanks,

Neil.


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Neil Marjoram
Systems Manager
Adastral Park Campus
University College London
Ross Building
Adastral Park
Martlesham Heath
Ipswich - Suffolk
IP5 3RE


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