[pca] Proxy/relay question

[Timothy Hosfelt]

Worked as advertised – thanks for the quick reply.

Tim

On 3/13/17, 5:34 AM, "pca on behalf of Martin Paul" <pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at on behalf of martin.paul at univie.ac.at> wrote:

    It's been such a long time, even I have to read the docs to look up the 
    configuration :)
    
    It should work by setting xrefurl and patchurl in the secondary PCA 
    proxy's pca-proxy.conf to point at the primary PCA proxy, like this:
    
      # Get everything from the proxy
      patchurl=http://www.networkA.org:8888/patches/pca-proxy.cgi
      xrefurl=http://www.networkA.org:8888/patches/pca-proxy.cgi
    
    (actual URLs, ports and paths of course depend on your setup - basically 
    the same setup you use on the clients in networkA).
    
    Clients in networkB will access the proxy in networkB, which contacts 
    the PCA proxy in networkA, which gets the patches from Oracle.
    
    hth,
    Martin.
    
    Am 13.03.2017 um 10:19 schrieb Tim Hosfelt:
    > That's exactly what I want to do, but not sure how to do it.
    >
    > On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 4:39 AM, Martin Paul <martin.paul at univie.ac.at
    > <mailto:martin.paul at univie.ac.at>> wrote:
    >
    >     Am 10.03.2017 um 18:36 schrieb Tim Hosfelt:
    >
    >         In my environment I have networks separated by firewalls.  In network A
    >         I have
    >         successfully set up a PCA Patch server via proxy and all hosts on
    >         network A can
    >         update via PCA.  In network B I have no access to a proxy server, but my
    >         network
    >         team did open port 8888 through the firewall for a single host - is
    >         there a way
    >         to set up the single host on network B to relay requests to the PCA
    >         Patch server
    >         in network A?
    >
    >
    >     Not sure if I understand your firewall setup correctly, but one solution
    >     might be to build a cascade of PCA proxy servers. You'd configure the one in
    >     network B to access the one in network A.
    >
    >     hth,
    >     Martin.
    >
    >
    
    
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