Portmapper and Package IP addresses

[Rusty Sapper]

We are running our application on 11.0 service guard cluster. We have a client GUI for our application that runs on our PC's. There is a statefull firewall between our PC's and the Server. Our client GUI will only connect to the Server IP address, it times out when pointing to the Package IP address.
We have watched the firewall and captured packets to see what was going on, and we have narrowed the problem down to the HP portmapper running on the server. It seems when a request is made to the portmapper through the Package IP address the reply comes back with the source IP address as the server IP instead of the Package IP. The statefull firewall does not allow this reply from the portmapper since it is from a different source than the original request.

Is this a know problem with the HP portmapper? is there a fix for this problem?

TIA

-Rusty

[melvyn burnard]

This is not a "problem" with protmapper, this is the way it works.
You need to configure hte firewall to allow hte floating ip addresses as well as the stationary ip addresses