On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) wrote: > Right now, there is no way to restrict the port range that Open MPI > will use. ... If this becomes a problem for you (i.e., the random > MPI-chose-the-same-port-as-your-app events happen a lot), let us > know and we can probably put in some controls to work around this.
I would welcome a discussion about this; on the LAM/MPI lists several people asked for a limited port range to allow them to pass through firewalls or to do tunelling. -- Bogdan Costescu IWR - Interdisziplinaeres Zentrum fuer Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Universitaet Heidelberg, INF 368, D-69120 Heidelberg, GERMANY Telephone: +49 6221 54 8869, Telefax: +49 6221 54 8868 E-mail: bogdan.coste...@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
