[omniORB] TCP device

[Paul Nader]

Hi Edmar,

Have you tried using the -BOAiiop_name_port <hostname[:port no.] option when
starting the client?. Try using this option to initialize the client with the
hostname
corresponding to the IP assigned by the RAS server...

Regards, Paul.

"E.Stoks" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm using OmniOrb 2.8 and I 've a problem with the IP address.
>
> On the system I am using I have both a network-card (fixed IP address ) and a
> modem to a NT server. The NT server (RAS)
> returns an IP -address (from  a pool)  when making a connection. (thus the
> ip-address for the card and the modem  Ip-connections are different).
>
> Now my corba-client can invoke my corba server (via a mapped network-drive and
> a file containing the IOR off the server).
> The corba-client logs on to the server and sends his object-reference as a
> parameter.  So far so good.
>
> The problem is that the server can't reach the client via this
> object-reference. I thought that the client uses the ip-address off the
> network card to make his object-reference. But the server isn't connected via
> the network card but via the modem connection.
>
> After disabeling the network-card for  the client I can make the connection via
>  the modem and everything works fine.
>
> Is it possible to tell the ORB to use the modem connections IP-address  to
> create the object-reference for the client?
>
> Or is there an other solution to tackle this problem??
>
> Cheers Edmar
>
>

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