[omniORB] Differences with omniINSPOA

[Kevin Wooten]

I am using Windows, and I thought these differences (loopback/eth#) did not exist.

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bjorn rohde jensen [mailto:bjensen@fastmail.fm]
>> Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 11:59 PM
>> To: Kevin Wooten
>> Cc: omniorb-list@realvnc.com
>> Subject: Re: [omniORB] Differences with omniINSPOA
>> 
>> 
>> Hi Kevin,
>> 
>>  ORBendPoint is fairly specific, so when you tell omniORB
>> to listen on a certain interface, it does that and only that.
>>  On most unix systems there is quite a difference between
>> specifying localhost and the hostname as the interface. Specifying
>> localhost usually results in using the loopback interface, and
>> specifying the hostname results in using one or more physical
>> interfaces.
>>  You can omit the hostname to make omniORB listen to all available
>> interfaces, or you can specify several ORBendPoint options for
>> greater control.
>> 
>> Yours sincerely,
>> 
>> Bjorn
>>