[omniORB] New features request

Michael J. Davis Jr. mjd@fnurt.net
Thu, 22 Mar 2001 13:10:01 -0000


Cary O'Brien <cobrien@Radix.Net> said:

> 
> Someone was asking about new features a while back.  I've
> got two suggestions (in order of decreasing sanity) I'll
> throw out.
> 
> 1. Be able to specify the IP address that an ORB binds
>    to.  If you have a host on multiple lans, you may want some
>    services available from one lan and some services available
>    from another lan.   I guess this would be per-orb, and would
>    apply to both clients and servers.
> 
> 2. Be able to somehow control the IP address that gets incorporated
>    into the object reference that goes back to the client.  The goal
>    would be to be able to return, say, a firewall IP address to external
>    clients, and an internal IP address to local clients.
> 
You can already do #2.  I can't remember the correct command line arguments.  
Something like -ORBInitialHost.  If you look through the OmniOrb 
documentation, you should find something about it there.