[omniORB] TPC Port selection

[Duncan Grisby]

On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 13:59 +0000, Obermaier, Stephen J (IS) wrote:

> Is there any way to explicitly configure omniorb to mange
> client/server interactions on a specified block of contiguous TCP
> ports?  There are a number of security requirement being placed on our
> applications that will force us to interact on a specified set of port
> numbers, as opposed to just having the OS choose a specified port.  We
> are running omniORB 4.1.4 under Windows.

With omniORB 4.1.x you can choose a single port with -ORBendPoint
giop:tcp::12345 but you can't specify a range. With 4.2 (which is what's
on trunk in svn) you'll be able to give a range like
giop:tcp::12345-12355

Cheers,

Duncan.

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