ORBacus & MC/SG

[Enrico Venturi]

Colleagues,
I have to integrate an application using ORBacus 4.1; It's simple to prepare the package including the ORBacus and the remaining application code, but there's a problem: ORBacus performs a hostname() system call to know the IP address of the node where the package is running; the physical IP is used to produce an IOR (something like an address in the CORBA world) and the IOR is used by the external applications to start any communications.
When a transfer of control occurs the IOR changes !! the external applications are not informed ...
My question is: ORBacus can be configured to be based on a supplied parameter, an IP in dotted decimal form (e.g. 151.98.10.10); in this case if the application virtual IP is provided the IOR will be maintained even after a switch over.
Did anyone verify this behaviour? DO you know if the ORBacus can be based on the virtual IP?

thank you
Enrico