[eq-dev] Newbie here, be nice please :)

[Stefan Eilemann]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:38 PM, NickSmith <smithnp at purdue.edu> wrote:

> Am I correct in thinking if I allow the machine I run the app from to fire
> the nodes in client mode automatically like it does on linux, I will not
> need to mess with changing the port numbers?  I'm guessing it does that
> automagically from the code when it is able to auto-run...???

It's actually the eqServer which launches the render clients.

They are started by the server with a special option telling them
where to find the server. During start, they bind to a random port
locally on the remote node (unless configured otherwise) and call back
to the server.


HTH,

Stefan.