[Go-essp-tech] GridFTP Port Ranges required

[Dean N. Williams]

Hi Alex,

	You are correct. My mistake. The MyProxy client on the DN doesn't  
need a port.

Best regards,
	Dean

On Oct 20, 2009, at 12:49 PM, Alex Sim wrote:

> I thought we only have myproxy client, not requiring a port for that.
>
> -- Alex
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> On 10/20/09 11:50 AM, Dean N. Williams wrote:
>> 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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