Re: [FW1] Port Question

[sirving@ca.ibm.com]

This can't be true since at home I use Sympatico's high speed edition (dsl) and
all http traffic *must* go through their proxy.  I have seti@home setup though
so that it says it has a direction connection; so I can only assume that it
doesn't use http.  I know you can set it up so that it can use an http proxy but
here at work I ended up socksifying my stack in order for it to work properly
using IBM's Secureway firewall.


"Tim O'Connor" <tco@enteract.com> on 09/09/99 10:11:44 AM

Please respond to "Tim O'Connor" <tco@enteract.com>

To:   Julia Kriner <JDK@emct.com>, "'fw-1-mailinglist@lists.us.checkpoint.com'"
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Subject:  Re: [FW1] Port Question




According to the Seti@home web site:




Does SETI@home work through firewalls (or proxies)?
SETI@home uses the HTTP protocol, and work through any semi-transparent
firewall that allows outgoing Web traffic. The latest versions of SETI@home
should work through more restrictive firewalls and proxies.
If you are having problems connecting through your proxy, you could also
look into SocksCap by NEC at http://www.socks.nec.com/sockscap.html and
Hummingbird Socks at
http://www.hummingbird.com/products/nc/socks/index.html Both let you use
software as if it were "directly connected to the Internet".


Looks like all you need is http open.




At 08:47 AM 9/9/99 , Julia Kriner wrote:

>Hello,
>does anybody know which port we should open on the firewall to let SETI@home
>work?
>
>SETI@HOME is described at
>http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
>
>
>but I thought maybe some of you know what it is, and know which port it is
>on the firewall.
>
>Thanks,
>Julia Kriner
>
>
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Tim O'Connor
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