A common configuration (at the APS and elsewhere) is to install a CA proxy
server
(a CA gateway) inside the firewall and then punch a hole in the firewall for
the server port
of the CA proxy server.
Jeff
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Mooney [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 10:00 AM
> To: Antonino Miceli
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: IDL MCA and CA through firewalls??
>
>
>
>
> Antonino Miceli wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to control (via channel access) a detector/IOC
> using the
> > IDL
> > MCA GUI. For reasons beyond my control, I cannot get this client to
> > install properly on a computer which lives on the same side of the
> > firewall as the detector lives.
> >
> > However, I can run the IDL MCA client on a different subnet (and on
> > the
> > other side of the firewall). [For those at APS, I want to
> run the client
> > on oxygen (52 subnet), but my detector and it's IOC are
> behind a CAT
> > firewall (namely 248 subnet).]
> >
> > So, it possible for an EPICS client to talk to EPICS server
> through a
> > firewall?
>
> Yes, but you have to get a network administrator to poke some
> holes in the firewall. By default, EPICS uses ports 5064 and
> 5065 for normal CA traffic.
>
> --
> Tim Mooney ([email protected]) (630)252-5417
> Beamline Controls & Data Acquisition Group
> Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Lab.
>
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