Re: [AG-TECH] Access Grid 3.0 beta1 available !

[Brian Tieman <tieman@aps.anl.gov>]

Add my name to the growing list of people who agree with this point.  
The sole reason I do not have a working AG venue is IT issues beyond my 
control.

Brian

Julia Mullen wrote:

> Good Morning -
>
> I concur on this point.  The firewall ports are really an issue here
> at the lab, and in the monthy High Productivity Computing Systems
> meetings that we hold.  It was also a problem for me when I was at WPI
> and working with folks at UMass Medical School - hospitals are
> especially loath to open ports - and port closing is the default - it
> will only get tighter.
>
> Just my $0.02
>
> Julie
>
> On 1/30/06, Nagykaldi, Zsolt F. (HSC) <Zsolt-Nagykaldi@ouhsc.edu> wrote:
>  
> > It seems that most practical problems during implementation come from
> > firewall issues. Are you guys planning to (at least) narrow the UDP port
> > range for VIC and RAT, or maybe (in my dreams) tunnel all audio/video
> > traffic through a few number of ports that are usually open? I have been
> > networking with a lot of people who are desperate to set up their nodes and
> > they hit a brick wall every time it comes to push changes through their IT
> > departments, who are freaking out about the idea of opening ports in such a
> > wide range. More and more people would like to use the system via PIGs and
> > not necessarily big institutional nodes that require weeks, if not months of
> > negotiations and arm-twisting each time a new client is added at a new
> > location. (The AG Connector would be really helpful, except it causes an
> > ominous looping drop of all audio-video connections, as it has been reported
> > before, and it is very unreliable). Extra features in v3.0 are nice, but I
> > truly believe that the firewall/ports issue is the most significant barrier
> > to wider adoption of the Toolkit.
> >
> >
> > Zsolt
> >
> >
> > _ _ _
> >
> > Zsolt Nagykaldi, PhD
> > Research Associate, Clinical IT Specialist
> > University Of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
> > Department Of Family And Preventive Medicine
> > Oklahoma Center For Family Medicine Research
> >
> > 900 NE 10th Street
> > Oklahoma City, OK 73104
> > Phone: (405) 271-8000 Ext.:1-32212
> > Fax:     (405) 271-1682
> >    
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