[omniORB] corba objects on machine with multiple ip cards

[Duncan Grisby]

On Wednesday 12 December, Maged Mokhtar wrote:

> Does anyone know on a machine with multiple ethernet cards ( with
> multiple ip addresses ) which address will be represented by the 
> object reference the server registers with OmniNames ?

omniORB 3 will, by default, use the first address it finds when it
looks up the machine's name. You can override its choice with the
OMNIORB_USEHOSTNAME environment variable, or the
-ORBpoa_iiop_name_port command line argument.

omniORB 3 clients only ever look at the first address in an object
reference, so you can't (usefully) export object references listing
all your network interfaces. omniORB 4 removes this restriction.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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