Re: [9fans] Plan 9 system behind firewall

[kokamoto@hera.eonet.ne.jp]

Thank you very much, Richard.

> A long delay when connecting to a server behind a firewall may be an
> attempt to connect to the secstore port.

I'm not running secstore yet at the target (Plan 9-2) auth server.

> Can you configure the firewall to open tcp port 5356?

Yes, I can.
I'll try this soon.   I'm now in a very tough time schedules, because of
our comming new year, semester, here.

Our situation is as this figure.   Plan 9-1 and Plan 9-2 have local ip addresses,
say 192.168.1.xx for Plan 9-1, 192.168.50.xx for Plan 9-2.  Both firewall
machines have global ip addresses.

                                                          real wall
___________                                         || other building                         ____________
|    Plan 9-1   |==>Linux box's <=============>another firewall<=|   Plan 9-2        |
| (Ken's fs,      |         firewall             Univ  LAN            BB router             | venti+fossil+   |
| auth server, |                                                              MZK-40g??           | cpu server,      |
| cpu server,  |       other Debian                                                                | terminals         |
|terminals)    |            machines                                                                 |Debian, XP etc |
| Windows XP|                                                                                             _____________
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Now attempting to reach from Plan 9-1 domain terminal to Plan 9-2 system.

One correction of my last mail:
I can boot Plan 9 terminal in the Plan 9-1 domain using Plan 9-2 file/auth
server.   It was just too long time than I can wait.    5.5 minutes from
boot the kernel to a factotum responce of Plan 9-2 server, and 5 more minutes
from it to get rio system (after type of password), total=10.5 minutes.
Yes, then, I judged it failed to bootup.   After the success of bootup,
there is no problem, and I can use the Plan 9 teminal as usual way.

I cannot solve this tommorow, Friday maybe.

Kenji