[2400] in Release_Engineering
Fwd: I think I need two IP service port numbers.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Tue Jul 10 21:40:35 1990
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 90 18:15:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: rel-eng@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Finally talking in person to a telecom person, I was told to inquire at
Rel-eng.
Sigh...
-wdc
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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 90 00:16:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: netreq@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Subject: I think I need two IP service port numbers.
I am new to the realm of establishing port numbers for services, so I
would be grateful if someone would send me information clarifying what I
really should be doing/asking for.
I am trying to bring one program that I didn't write up to conformance
with our standards of niceness for inter-operability. There is a second
program that is cloned from this first program, that is probably set up
incorrectly, but it will be the first I put right.
Here is the issue:
The (old) andrew help program listens on an IP port (currently hard
wired as port 2016) for new instances of the program inquiring if there
is already a help window up. (If so, the new help process sends the
command line to the old help process, and the new one quietly exits.)
The viewer for the Athena on-line help system is going to do very much
the same thing. (It will call out to see if there's another one
running, and if so, it will forward the command and exit.)
QUESTION: What is the "right way" to establish the port numbers for
rendez vous?
Could I please have two such port numbers allocated to me? One for
andrew-help and one for athena-olh-ezviewer.
What are the problems involved with one of them being 2016 to conform to
the old code?
Thanks muchly.
-wdc
