From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Oct 30 5:49:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1632F37B4CF for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 05:49:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 13qFJ7-0007SC-00 for chat@freebsd.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 13:49:01 +0000 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA76301 for chat@freebsd.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 13:49:01 GMT (envelope-from jcm) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 13:49:01 +0000 From: j mckitrick To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: RPC through a firewall Message-ID: <20001030134901.A75987@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi all, I have a simple firewall setup based on the Mark Silver (?) tutorial from a few months back. I have an assignment to write a simple file server and client using remote procedure calls. I found a fair amount of documentation, including rpcgen, which is definitely going to be critical for my project. 2 questions: what would be a good way to transfer a file using rpc? Can I use ftp within my client/server system? Do I need to do anything special in my firewall to allow this? I believe rpc is still enabled in my /etc/services, but I would like the firewall to allow local testing and then remote testing. For Licq I had to add a few lines to the firewall config to allow those port connections. Since the RPC ports are already present, do I need to do anything special to allow this? Thanks for any help. This is going to be a big project in an already crazy semester. jcm -- "That depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is." -President Bill Clinton "I don't know what you mean by the word 'ask.'" -CEO Bill Gates To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message