[Go-essp-tech] GridFTP Port Ranges required

[Dean N. Williams]

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.
>