[install-discuss] Ports used by WANBOOT

[Bernd Schemmer]

Dave Miner wrote:

Dave,

 > Are you talking about the client ports used to
 > retrieve the miniroot and flash archive?

Yes

 > If so, those are chosen randomly out of the port space,

port space is 32768 and above?

 > and there's no way to configure it at this point.

That's bad - then we have to open all ports on our firewall about 32k 
for the installation of the machines.

Our plan was to use the WANBOOT Server also after installation to be 
able to boot the machine into maintenance mode but I don't think that 
our Securiy Team will allow us to keep the ports open after installing 
the machine...

Do you know if there's already a RFE to change this? If not, I'll fill a 
RFE.

regards

Bernd


> Bernd Schemmer wrote:
>> We today discovered that the WANBOOT installation uses random (?)
>> ports higher than 32768 for the installation in addition to the http
>> port.
>>
>> Q:
>>
>> What range of ports is used by WANBOOT?
>>
>> Are the ports used by WANBOOT configurable?
>>
>
> Are you talking about the client ports used to retrieve the miniroot 
> and flash archive?  If so, those are chosen randomly out of the port 
> space, and there's no way to configure it at this point.
>
> Dave
>


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