[omniORB] OmniOrb starting problem

[Duncan Grisby]

On Monday 12 March, "Po Geng" wrote:

> My name is Po Geng and I am a developer at Seismic Micro Technology,
> Inc. I am working on (RC)2 which is a geological modeling software using
> OmniOrb. Recently, I ran into a problem. If we unplug the network
> connection, the application failed to start. The reason is that in
> tcpaddress.cc:
> 
> 	rc = getpeername(sock, (struct sockaddr*)&peer, &len);
> 
> Return rc==RC_SOCKET_ERROR.
> 
> If I re-plug network, everything is OK. 

On some Windows installs (are you using Windows?), removing a network
cable can completely remove the TCP stack from the machine, which
prevents omniORB from starting up. You can change that behaviour with a
registry setting that eludes me at the moment.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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