Subj : Changing the Standard port number used
To   : Louis Northmore
From : Vincent Coen
Date : Wed Apr 13 2022 05:48 pm

Hello Louis!

Wednesday April 13 2022 17:09, you wrote to me:

 > //Hello Vincent,//

 > on *4/13/2022* at *14:39:48* You wrote in area *MBSE*
 > to *All* about *"Changing the Standard port number used"*.

 > [snip]

 VC>> As my main system uses the default of 24554 I have port
 VC>> forwarding set on the router to the main system but need to do
 VC>> the same for port 24555 for the Pi.

 VC>> Question how do I change the mbse set up to use this change of
 VC>> port as I cannot find anywhere where this is defined.


 VC>> Any one have a clue to finding this and changing it ?

 > Id be tempted to solve this just using the port forwarding. So just
 > forward port 24555 > IPAddressOfPi > 24554

That should do it - thanks for reminding me.


 > If you are determined to change the ports for any configured services,
 > MBSE uses inetd right?

 > check out the setup.sh script - at the end of this it configures
 > /etc/services which the inetd service uses. My first step would be to
 > edit /etc/services then try a reboot and see if inetd/xinetd picks up
 > the new service config.

Yes that is set for 24554 but I do not know what actually this does in 
relation
to mbse.

Documentation is a bit poor on this in the mbse docs.

I will stick to your first idea - well at least until it doesn't work, that 
is.

Vincent

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