Product: OpenFusion TAO
Version: ALL

Description:

Does TAO use any specific ports for running services on?

Resolution:

TAO does not specifically use any ports. You have the option to set these.

For example when using the TAO Name Service you can use the option -m 1 to enable multicast responses with the option -ORBNameServicePort <nsport> to set the port you want it to listen on.

If you are concerned that you might be starting the server on a port that is already in use you could use the portspan option with the -ORBEndpoint. This will open the IIOP endpoint on the first available port in a range of port numbers.

The format for ORBEndpoint with the portspan option is:

-ORBEndpoint iiop://[hostname]:initialPort/portspan=span

where initialPort is the initial port number in the range of allowable ports, and span is an integer value indicating the size of the span of allowable ports.