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When the storage cluster needs to communicate outside of its network (replication feeds, for example), the SCS machine provides network address translation (NAT) to keep the internal network better shielded from external access.
HTTP
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Proxy
SCS does not support use of environment variables that govern the use of HTTP http proxies (HTTPhttp_PROXYproxy, HTTPShttps_PROXYproxy, etc.). If these variables are set on SCS, network communication will be disrupted.
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