Hello Stephanie,
The specific of how this gets configured would need to be worked out, but
this does appear to be a good idea. If you would like I could add your
request as a Mantis entry against R3.15 so I have a reminder to look at this
sometime before R3.15 gets released?
Jeff
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of Allison, Stephanie
> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 11:04 AM
> To: EPICS Tech-Talk
> Subject: Multiple IOCs on the same Host - question on dynamically
allocated
> TCP Ports
>
> Hello,
>
> When multiple IOCs run on the same host, using the same
> EPICS_CA_SERVER_PORT, they use the same port for UDP channel connection
> requests but have to use different ports for the CA TCP connection (of
> course). The CA reference manual says:
>
> "If the CA server library detects that a server is attempting to start on
> the same port as an existing CA server then both servers will use the same
> UDP port, and the 2nd server will be allocated an ephemeral TCP port."
>
> Is there a way to set the allowable range of TCP ports that the IOC is
> allowed to choose from for its TCP port? In particular, on a RHEL4 linux
> server.
>
> The reason for this is that we wish to have some of our CA clients,
outside
> our firewall, connect directly to IOCs (both RTEMS and linux) inside the
> firewall. We don't want them to go through a CA proxy gateway process and
> we don't want to have to set their EPICS_CA_ADDR_LISTs to include
different
> EPICS_CA_SERVER_PORT values. We also don't want to open up our firewall
to
> all TCP ports just to allow this communication but are willing to allow a
> small range of predefined TCP ports. And we don't want to combine our
IOCs
> into one. Essentially, we want each soft IOC to use the same
> EPICS_CA_SERVER_PORT for UDP connection requests but a predefined port for
> the TCP connection (ie, a new environment variable like
> EPICS_CA_SERVER_TCP_PORT which would be set differently in each of our
soft
> IOC startup files).
>
> Any thoughts? Thank you,
>
> Stephanie Allison
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