Earl, I don't think there will be any issue with these port numbers.
I believe the 5 Ports that Canadian retailer mentioned are their outbound ports (80, 2080, 4080, 5080 & 9080). But, they will be coming to a particular Port on your system that you tell them to come to. Usually, this Port is built into the URL itself. For example, your URL can be http://b2b.vendor.com:4080/IP2 In this URL, you are asking your partner to come to only Port# 4080 and your AS2 server will listen to only one port# 4080. And this will be the same for all of your inbound partners. Your AS2 software won't care from which Port the trading partner is coming from, they can come from either 80 or 2080 or 9080 etc. So, even if you have hundreds of trading partners it will not be an issue. Let me know if I am missing something and you still think you will have issues with these port numbers. Thanks, Kanchi Earl Wertheimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] m> cc: Sent by: Subject: [EDI-L] The Joys of AS2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] .com 05/10/2006 10:28 PM A large retail chain up here in Canada is moving to AS2. They have listed 5 useable ports - 80, 2080, 4080, 5080 & 9080. They are also requiring Drummond Group certification ;-( I looked at a list of our existing AS2 clients, and only 20% of them use one of these ports. The rest use other ports. This has not been a problem in the past, since all of our clients were doing AS2 with WalMart and possibly one other TP. As additional hubs switch to AS2, this may become a problem... We are using bTrade... The AS2 server has to listen on a particular port, so my question is: How do you accommodate multiple AS2 ports? Doing a port redirect in the firewall/router is one option... Any others? thanks Earl Wertheimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.spe-edi.com ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix. Access the list online at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L RSS feed is: http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/rss Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get to your groups with one click. Know instantly when new email arrives http://us.click.yahoo.com/.7bhrC/MGxNAA/yQLSAA/OIFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix. Access the list online at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L RSS feed is: http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/rss Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
