[omniORB] Starting a CORBA server on a machine with multiple network IP's.

[Theo Aukerman]

When the orb creates a socket, if it does not specify which interface, the
TCP stack selects one.  So far I have not figured out how to arrange a
specific order.

In the past (on other projects) I've added the ability to select which
interface to bind to.

omniORB supports controlling which interface to bind to using the
OMNIORB_USEHOSTNAME environment variable.  You can have the program set the
environment variable using _putenv() before calling ORB_init() and/or
BOA_init() if you wish.


If you need to communicate through all 3 interfaces, things could get a
little tricky.  You might be able to accomplish this by having a server on
each interface where 2 of the servers simply pass through requests to the
3rd which contains the actual implementation.  (Interesting issue, anyone
have any other ideas?)


Theo

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Bendickson [mailto:bendi003@tc.umn.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 2:04 PM
To: omniorb-list@uk.research.att.com
Subject: [omniORB] Starting a CORBA server on a machine with multiple
network IP's.


Our server has 3 network adapters.  One for the LAN and 2 others for private
networks.  I am unable to connect to my CORBA server on this system using
the IOR.  I think it's because the IOR contains IP of one of the private
networks and not the LAN IP.  How does it decide which one to use?  We're on
NT 4.0.  The network adapters are numbered.  Does it pick the first one?