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Hi Gerry, re: > Karen is sitting here and has a conundrum. She's trying to work with a TV > station who wants to be able to send their radar data to Monterrey via LDM > but can't get a port opening for 388. OK. This would imply that the downstream (Karen's) LDM would not be able to REQUEST data from the upstream (the TV station) because they are unwilling to open inbound traffic on port 388, correct? re: > I seem to recall an ldmsend command: > Does this allow a data "push" with no request? Yes, exactly. This is what MMM was using to distribute AMPS model output to the Antarctic research community before we offered to relay their data for them. We could do the relay because we have machines that can see into both sides of the UCAR security perimeter. The non-UCAR Antarctic researchers now REQUEST the AMPS data from us (antidd.ucar.edu) which, in turn, REQUESTs AMPS data from a MMM LDM. re: > They can push via 388; they can't get corporate to open a firewall port. OK. If they have a machine on which an LDM can be run (it sounds like this is the case), and if they can have a different port open, then they can build an LDM instance that listens on the port that can be opened, and Karen's LDM can REQUEST data from the TV stations LDM using the other port. If the data to be moved is voluminous enough, this is the recommended way of setting up things. If for some inexplicable reason this setup will not work, then Karen can add an ACCEPT line in her LDM machine's ~ldm/etc/ldmd.conf file so that it will accept out of band data from the TV station's. Just so you know, this is how LDM real-time statistics are received here in Unidata. re: > Thanks No worries. Cheers, Tom -- **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: VNE-349637 Department: Support LDM Priority: Normal Status: Closed