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

[Gary D. Duzan]

   As an enhancement, it might be nice to allow OMNIORB_USEHOSTNAME
to be a comma (?) delimited list of addresses and/or hostnames,
resulting in multiple IIOP profiles being added to object references.
It would be a bit bloaty for the IORs, but if I understand the
matter correctly it would allow an ORB to try each one until it
finds one it can use.
   Just a thought...

					Gary Duzan
					GTE Laboratories



In Message <9BF81AC2F664D311A56600A0C9AC979A1A9AD7@gateway.logici.com> ,
   Theo Aukerman <taukerman@logici.com> wrote:

=>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?
=>
=>