[Go-essp-tech] GridFTP Port Ranges required
Dean N. Williams
williams13 at llnl.gov
Tue Oct 20 12:50:48 MDT 2009
Thanks Neill for sending this out.
The ports thus far are:
HTTP: port 80
SSL: port 443
MyProxy: port 2119
GridFTP: ports 2811, 50000 - 51000
Luca may want to open up another port just between the Gateway and
Data Nodes.
Did I leave anything out?
Best regards,
Dean
On Oct 20, 2009, at 10:17 AM, Neill Miller wrote:
> Hello,
>
> GridFTP needs several ports to operate properly. First and foremost
> is port 2811, which is the standard listening port for operations.
> Data is moved over other ports that are contained within an
> arbitrary, yet configurable range. More ports are needed for larger
> parallel transfers, and simultaneous transfer, etc.
>
> Please read this section titled "Firewall requirements":
>
> http://*www.*globus.org/toolkit/docs/4.2/4.2.0/data/gridftp/admin/
> gridftp-admin-config-security.html#gridftp-security-firewalls
>
> So an example port range that needs to be opened for GridFTP
> (assuming that the docs are followed and the proper environment
> variables are set) are:
>
> 2811, 50000-51000
>
> Since it's configurable, I will leave the actual port numbers to be
> used up to the systems folks. Just be sure it's documented and
> communicated to others so that we can get the GridFTP server up and
> running! For example, I will need to know sooner than later so that
> I can update Gavin's script for starting the server on the Data nodes.
>
> thanks,
> -Neill.
>
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