Not by a computer. Thanks misi Sent from my iPhone
> On Mar 14, 2014, at 7:27 PM, Misi Mladoniczky <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > You can look at the TCP-number as a physical port on the server (an IP > address) to connect to from 1 to 65536 I think. > > The first 1024 TCP-port numbers are reserver for some common things like http > (port 80), https (port 443), portmapper (111) etc. > > The high ports from 1024-65536 and above can be used as the programmer likes. > > Because two programmers can potentially pick the same port, you have to adapt > your program to be able to use different ports if a conflict is there. > > One solution is to use RPC and the portmapper for this. BMC has reserver the > RPC ports 390600-390699 for Remedy AR System. > > The RPC port is never shared between different programs. > > When the AR Server starts, it contacts the portmapper and askes for a free TCP > port to use for the RPC port 390600, and the portmapper will respond with > something like 12345. All communication to the AR Server will then happen on > TCP port 12345. > > The client can find the server by first connecting to the portmapper TCP 111 > port and ask for the "physical" connection to RPC 390600 which is known. The > portmapper will then direct the client as well to port 12345. > > You can override the "random" assignment of the "physical" TCP-port in ar.cfg, > which is typically important when opening firewall ports. And you can also > skip the portmapper completely by specifying the TCP port 12345 in the client. > > There is also another use for the different RPC ports, and that is when you > set up a private server threads on the higher 3906xx numbers. You can then > specify TCP-port to be able to connect directly to those threads via the > RPC-number. > > Nowadays I think all communication goes through a single TCP-port to the AR > Server. Earlier there were different TCP-ports for each RPC-number. This makes > it easier for us, but a little confusing... > > Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://www.rrr.se (ARSList MVP 2011) > > Ask the Remedy Licensing Experts (Best R.O.I. Award at WWRUG10/11/12/13): > * RRR|License - Not enough Remedy licenses? Save money by optimizing. > * RRR|Log - Performance issues or elusive bugs? Analyze your Remedy logs. > Find these products, and many free tools and utilities, at http://rrr.se. > >> Hi Experts, >> >> What is TCP and RPC port? >> What's the difference between them? >> Why do we use them in remedy? >> What will happen if we eliminate them? >> >> _______________________________________________________________________________ >> UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org >> "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years" > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years" _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"
