Re: [EXTERNAL] IOC connection problem

[Ralph Lange via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

On Thu, 20 Jun 2024 at 17:04, Hartman, Steven via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> wrote:

On Jun 20, 2024, at 10:51 AM, Mark Rivers <rivers at cars.uchicago.edu> wrote:

As I said in a recent post, I don't think there is an easy way to run the firewall on a machine with multiple IOCs, since the subsequent IOCs need random ports to be opened for CA.

While thinking about your error message, I stumbled across this post to tech-talk from Dirk in 2019 . . .

https://epics.anl.gov/tech-talk/2019/msg00644.php

Interesting idea. The IOC would need sufficient privileges to update the firewall rules. Curious if this is used in production.

This approach should be easier nowadays, as

Server exports RSRV_SERVER_PORT

During iocInit(), the environment variable RSRV_SERVER_PORT is set with the TCP port number selected.

starting from EPICS 7.0.7

Cheers,
~Ralph