Subject: jade and ip forwarding
From: Andrea Rossato (andrea@black.gelso.unitn.it)
Date: Sat Jan 11 2003 - 19:43:50 MET
hi there!
I successfully installed jade-2.61 and I'm trying to deploy an agent
platform as a node of the agentcities network.
My problem is that the linux box on which jade is running is in a
private network. The traffic to that box is forwarded by another linux box.
The network configuration is not a problem: I can successfully run the
agentcities testsuit. The problem is that my ap-description goes like this:
( ap-description
:name "smgipc49.jus.unitn.it:1099/JADE"
:dynamic false
:mobility false
:transport-profile
( ap-transport-description
:available-mtps
(set
( mtp-description
:mtp-name fipa.mts.mtp.http.std
:addresses
(sequence http://gipc49.jus.unitn.it7788/acc )
)
)
)
)
smgipc49.jus.unitn.it is the private box running jade and
gipc49.jus.unitn.it is the forwarding box (that is to say: the first one
cannot be seen from the internet).
since I cannot configure the HTTP MTP in smgipc49 as
gipc49.jus.unitn.it, my ping agent replays with sender address
http://smgipc49.jus.unitn.it:7778/acc whereas in the ap-description the
address is http://gipc49.jus.unitn.it:7778/acc
You can test my ap and you'll see that it is working just fine. But I
was wondering: is this setup a violation of fipa standards? Is there
some kind of security concern that implies comparing the sender address
in the message against the ip source address of the http packets and/or
the address of the ap-description (this comparison does not occurs in
the agentcities testsuit, though...)?
I don't know whether this is the right place to ask this question:
should I contact the agentcities group?
Sorry for that but I'm pretty new to software agents: I belong to a
Department of Legal Sciences (University of Trento) and we are
conducting a research project on the legal aspects of the use of
electronic agents. I'm quite far from being a programmer...
Thanks for your attention.
Kind regards,
Andrea Rossato
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