[Sangam-developer] Re: Open port 80 for Syncshare server

[Manpreet S. <sin...@gm...>]

Hi Dright,

>Why are there two different ports?

Kizna Server supports both TCP and HTTP connection. Therefore, there
are 2 ports, 54963 for TCP and 8199 for HTTP.

Consider your client is behind firewall which does not allow the
client to make a TCP connection. Kizna Client on failing to make a TCP
connection, tries to make an HTTP connection, wherein it polls for
data from server.

To enable HTTP connection you would have to use Apache with mod_proxy
module. While specifying mod_proxy in httpd.conf you would specify
this port 8199.

If you donot wish to support HTTP connection, you are not required to
put Apache and mod_proxy, and so 8199 would not be used. But, it is
not possible to instruct Kizna Server not to open port 8199 ( though
it wont be used)


HTH,
Manpreet.


On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 15:24:47 -0400, Dright Ho <dr...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi Manpreet,
> 
> We are using Syncshare in the Sangam plugin. Syncshare is using some
> ports that are not usually accessible through firewalls. We are
> thinking about the possibility to make the port number configurable.
> We looked into the source code, and found out that the server actually
> opens two ports: Kizna default port 54963, and HTTP 8199. Why are
> there two different ports? Do we need these two ports to keep server
> functional? Is it possible that we can run the server with only one
> port?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- dright
>