Managing ports through a firewall
When you connect to the network to accelerate SaaS platforms, if you have configured a firewall that blocks outbound traffic, ensure these ports are open:
• Port 443 and port 80 for outbound connections to the Riverbed Cloud Portal. The appliances connect to the Riverbed Cloud Portal through these ports.
Note: Configure the firewall so that it allows connections from the appliance.
• Outbound stateful UDP port 9545 from the SteelHead in-path interface. The appliance connected to the Akamai Intelligent Platform uses this UDP port over a wide range of IP addresses.
In a back-hauled deployment, the data center SteelHead appliance redirects the traffic to the Akamai network, but the Branch SteelHead appliance performs the optimization. Traffic from the Branch SteelHead appliance uses TCP on ports 7800 through 7899. Traffic from the data center SteelHead appliance uses UDP on port 9545.