topic Re: Firewall setting for Oracle Report Server in Operating System - Linux

Firewall setting for Oracle Report Server

Eddy Chan_1 — Tue, 18 Jun 2002 10:43:15 GMT

We have a Oracle Report Server serving port 1949 inside our firewall.
Other servers inside the firewall work well with the Report Server.

After we use NAT to map a real IP address to the internal Report Server, the Report Server is not responding to any request send from outside.

Do you have similar experience? Could you share with me?
FYI, our firewall is a RedHat Linux 7.2 running "iptables".

Thanks in advance!

Re: Firewall setting for Oracle Report Server

Mark Fenton — Wed, 19 Jun 2002 01:25:11 GMT

I would recommend you do a little digging to see where the communication is failing -- whether the server is receiving anything from external or is able to respond to external.

Firewall logs might give you a hint as to where the communication is failing, or if not, then run a sniffer, such as Ethereal or tcpdump and note any traffic bound for or coming from the Report server.

Hope this helps.
Mark

Re: Firewall setting for Oracle Report Server

U.SivaKumar_2 — Wed, 19 Jun 2002 09:11:16 GMT

Hi
Have you opened the port 1949 in the firewall so that outside clients can access that service.

regards,
U.SivaKumar

Re: Firewall setting for Oracle Report Server

Eddy Chan_1 — Thu, 20 Jun 2002 01:29:39 GMT

Sure I had opened port 194 in iptables but outside server cant go through this port

Re: Firewall setting for Oracle Report Server

U.SivaKumar_2 — Thu, 20 Jun 2002 02:58:19 GMT

Hi,
Have given ipchains to accept port 1949 on the both your external and internal interfaces.
(bi-directional)

regards,
U.SivaKumar