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Opening Ports on Pix 515e

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superco7

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Dec 20, 2002
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I was wondering if anyone could help me out. I am attempting to install Veritas Storage Replicator to backup data from a remote office back to our main office. The one problem I am running into is opening the ports on both of the firewalls (the ports are listed in the link below), but I am unclear what I should be putting in the Source Host/Network field and the Destination Host/Network field. I would imagine that it is a security risk to leave both of these fields blank, should I be putting in the IP address of the server in remote office in the source and the IP address of the server in the main office in the destination, then specify what ports I would like to open? I would imagine that I have to do an entry for both incoming traffic and outgoing traffic. If I have to enter the IP address of the server here in the main office, I would have to map it to one of ISPs external IP addresses, correct?


Thanks in advance for the help.
 
Without seeing your firewall config, I am just making an assumption here. Your PIX f/w's are probably configured with all traffic being allowed in the outbound direction. This means that you only need to allow the specified ports in the inbound direction on both firewalls. Statically map them and then allow them in with access lists.

 
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