On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 08:17:36AM +0100, Simon Hammond wrote:
> On 31/08/2007, Gleb Natapov <gl...@voltaire.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 08:04:00AM +0100, Simon Hammond wrote:
> > > On 31/08/2007, Lev Givon <l...@columbia.edu> wrote:
> > > > Received from George Bosilca on Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 07:42:52PM EDT:
> > > > > I have a patch for this, but I never felt a real need for it, so I
> > > > > never push it in the trunk. I'm not completely convinced that we need
> > > > > it, except in some really strange situations (read grid). Why do you
> > > > > need a port range ? For avoiding firewalls ?
> > >
> > > We are planning on using OpenMPI as the basis for running MPI jobs
> > > across a series of workstations overnight. The workstations are locked
> > > down so that only a small number of ports are available for use. If we
> > > try to use anything else its disaster.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately this is really an organizational policy above anything
> > > else and its very difficult to get it to change.
> > >
> > >
> > As workaround you can write application that will bind to all ports that
> > are not allowed to be used by MPI before running MPI job.
>
> Sounds very drastic, thanks for the advice. I'll give it a go. Do you
> think it might be easy to add this to the source code at sometime
> though?
>
It just workaround. Proper solution would be of cause adding an option for this.
--
Gleb.
