[omniORB] OmniOrb 4.0 initialization with 2 NICs?

[Luke Deller]

Hi Shawn,

>     We are doing some development with OmniOrb 4.0 for 
> connectivity to the Chicago Board of Options Exchange (CBOE).  
> We have run into a problem when we are trying to connect to the 
> back end host api (CMi) from a server that has two NIC interface 
> cards.
>     The primary card in this machine routes to the Chicago 
> Mercantile Exchange (CME) and the secondary card routes to the 
> CBOE. It appears that when we bind and make a connection 
> through the secondary card to the CBOE with OmniOrb, it is 
> picking the ip address of the primary card by default and therefore 
> the CBOE rejects our connection because it thinks we are coming 
> from an invalid address.
>     Is there someway to tell the OmniOrb to use the secnodary NIC 
> for all of it's initialization data - specifically I think the "hostname"? 
> Our service works fine in a machine with only one NIC.

Have you tried the endPoint configuration option?  It's described in the
sample configuration file shipped with omniORB, and you can also check
out the relevant docs:

http://omniorb.sourceforge.net/omni40/omniORB/omniORB008.html#toc41

> We have traded the wisdom of the ancestors for
> the superstition of science.

Wow, can these be traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange now?

Regards,
Luke.


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