[Ace-users] [tao-users] Does tao support outgoing port of client setting

[Wernke zur Borg]

> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: 07 January 2008 10:42
> To: Johnny Willemsen
> Subject: Re: [tao-users] Does tao support outgoing port of 
> client setting
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 09:04 +0100, Johnny Willemsen wrote:
> > This is currently not supported. In order to do this you 
> would need to
> > have some kind of TAO specific option to specify a port range to be
> > used by the connector. At this moment TAO leaves the decision which
> > port to take to the OS. If you need this option you can add this
> > yourself or hire a commercial support company (like Remedy 
> IT) to add
> > this for you.
> 
> Or you could use an IIOP firewall. Take a look at Lorica. It will do
> what you need and more:
> 
> http://trac.42tools.net/lorica
> 
> Lorica is, as far as I know, the only OSS IIOP firewall on the planet.
> It is not yet officially released, but I hope to get a message out in
> the not to distant future.
> 

This is definitely not the only solution. A look at Xtradyne I-DBC could
as well be worthwhile. It is a commercial product though.

http://www.prismtech.com/section-item.asp?sid=18&sid2=27&sid3=291&id=733

Cheers,
Wernke