User's Guide
  3.8 Port and Protocol Requirements 
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3.8  Port and Protocol Requirements 
The following table details ports used in deployments using PCoIP technology. The table 
indicates in the Interface column if the open ports are required or are optional. 
Table 6. Ports and protocols 
Interface 
Protocols 
Port(s) 
Encrypted 
Authenticated 
Purpose 
IP Network 
DHCP 
67, 68 
(UDP) 
n/a 
n/a 
Dynamic IP address. 
SLP 
Discovery 
(optional) 
SLP 
427 
(TCP/UDP) 
No 
No 
Discover hosts (unmanaged) 
and discovery advertisements 
to CMS (managed). 
DNS based 
discovery 
(optional) 
DHCP  
67, 68 
(UDP) 
n/a 
n/a 
Discovery advertisements to 
CMS. DHCP options 12 and 
15 required (to obtain domain 
name). 
DNS  
53 
(UDP) 
n/a 
n/a 
Used to lookup IP address of 
CMS FQDN (based on well-
known DNS based discovery 
prefix). 
HTTPS/SOAP/XML 
(TCP with SSL/TLS) 
50000 
(TCP) 
Yes 
Yes 
Advertisement context uses 
Connection Management 
Interface (CMS). 
DNS SRV 
discovery 
(optional) 
DHCP  
67, 68 
(UDP) 
n/a 
n/a 
Discovery advertisements to 
CMS. DHCP options 12 and 
15 required (to obtain domain 
name). 
DNS  
53 
(UDP) 
n/a 
n/a 
Used to query the DNS SRV 
Resource Record (RR) 
HTTPS/SOAP/XML 
(TCP with SSL/TLS) 
50000 
(TCP) 
Yes 
Yes 
Advertisement context uses 
Connection Management 
Interface (CMS). 
Web 
Interface 
(optional) 
HTTPS 
(TCP with TLS/SSL) 
443 
(TCP) 
Yes 
Yes 
Remote web client access 
TERA1100/1200 configuration 
parameters 
HTTP 
80 
(TCP) 
No 
 No 
Redirects to HTTPS. 










