Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Allison, Stephanie" <[email protected]> · Thu, 5 Feb 2009 13:51:08 -0800

Hi Chris,

> Hi - I'd like to have a firewall configured on my linux system but  
> when I turn it on then I get a timeout when accessing EPICS variables  
> on a remote system.  I thought it would be sufficient to enable TCP  
> and UDP access on ports 5064 and 5065, since I'm running with a  
> "standard" EPICS build on the latest release.  Can anyone 
> suggest what else I need to set in a firewall configuration to allow EPICS to work?

This is fine for destination ports but we also enable 1 to 65535 on source ports for the CA TCP connections.

Stephanie Allison

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System