I was going to ask what I was doing wrong... But I figured that out just a moment ago.
My question now is what is the logic behind requiring a user to be in TCPIP¹s Obey list to allow it to use certain TCP/IP ports and protocols. It isn¹t everything, because things like FTP work, and I think you can play fairly fast and loose with higher numbered ports. But trying to connect to port 514 on another virtual machine wasn¹t allowed until I put the user in the Obey list in the PROFILE TCPIP file. Also: If I violate this using Pipe and the UDP stage, why don¹t I get a non-zero return code? The UDP stage quietly accepts records, and the pipe returns a zero return code, but no data is actually sent. There¹s no errors in the TCPIP console log either; the data is just ignored and not sent anywhere. Shouldn¹t there be an indication somewhere that the data wasn¹t sent? Or (and I confess I haven¹t tried to decode anything in the output string yet) is there something in the output of the UDP stage that would indicate that the message failed to send? -- Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation .~. RO-OE-5-55 200 First Street SW /V\ 507-284-0844 Rochester, MN 55905 /( )\ ----- ^^-^^ "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and practice are different."
