how to open por number in VMS

[IFX_1]

Hi All,
For example one of printer require port# 2099, how can I enable this port to that printer? Is the port 2099 is already enable by default or still needs to enable?

Apprecaite your help.
Thanks.

regards,
ronald

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

If the symbiont is a telnetsym, you specify the port number yourself.

As in /autostart=(node::"ip_name:2099")

Wim

[labadie_1]

and of course, if a specific software takes care of that port, you start the service: for the port 515, configure and start the service lpd, with tcpip$config

[IFX_1]

Hi WIM,
That is for the printer, how if I have another application that requires, let's say, port # 2010 -- do I need to enable this port? How to enable port number in VMS?

[labadie_1]

In Vms there is not a file where you comment or uncomment port numbers, you must have a program listening that port, and it is usually a service (tcpip sh service).

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

Ronald,

The 2099 is indeed for the printer. On VMS you will get random-port on VMS to 2099 on printer. VMS can still have incoming connections on 2099, if an application has a listener for this port.

If you use LPD for printing you can have incoming an outgoing LPD connections. It is undocumented (for me) how to specify the portnumber for outgoing connection. I've read some articles and have the impression that it is implementation specific (e.g. lpd_port in printcap file).

Wim