RSC/MP Installation and Configuration Guide
TCP/IP Network Interface Configuration
Selecting the TCP/IP Port
Second collecting all addresses specified with the ip: tag, in order from left to right.
During either the first or second collection, a wildcard (ipv6:* or ip:*) will cause IP
address collection to stop and all previously collected addresses to be discarded.
The wildcard thus overides any and all other IP addresses specified in the
extended address. (The wildcard feature is expected to be used when an extended
addresses contains both IP and non-IP information.)
Once all the addresses have been collected, the NIF will try to connect to each
address until either a connection is established or the tags are exhausted.
Selecting the TCP/IP Port
Piccolo has been assigned port number 2787 by the Internet Assigned Number
Authority. This port number is in the Master Services file; howeve r, it is not necessarily
found in the Services file on every system. Because the port cannot be shared
between different TCP/IP applications, it is important that the port number you select is
not being used by another application.
Note: Port 2787 is recommended for most RSC/MP installations.
If you plan to run more than one instance of Piccolo or more than one NIFSOCK
process per Pipeman process on your system, each instance of the network interface
must use a different port. However, you must ensure that the port number you choose
is not being used by another application.
Configuration Options Reference
The following options are available for configuring the TCP/IP network interface
process in the PIPE.INI file. The example configuration file shown later in this section
uses some of these options.
Network Interface Section ([NIF-nifname])
This NIF section contains options that control the operation of the TCP/IP network.
These settings are read by the NIF process when it starts. The settings in this section
are preceded by the section name [NIF-nifname], where nifname is the user-defined
symbolic name of the NIF.
CPU
Option
The CPU option defines the number of the processor where the NIF process is to run.
CPU=number
number
A valid numeric value from 0 through 15.
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