Troubleshooting firewall connectivity to R1Soft for Linux

Expertise level: Easy

Connectivity to port 1167 is necessary for the R1Soft backup agent to function properly. If you are troubleshooting R1Soft on a dedicated server with Linux IPTables, use this command:

/sbin/iptables -I INPUT -p tcp -s [CDPServerIP] --dport 1167 -j ACCEPT
/etc/init.d/iptables save