Broadcasting and Listening Ports Used by Servers
When ProjectWise Explorer clients use UDP to broadcast requests to ProjectWise servers on the network, the default port open on the ProjectWise server to receive and respond to these requests is 5799. This is referred to as the broadcast port. When clients use the ProjectWise Network Configuration Settings dialog to establish a TCP connection to the server, the default port that the server listens for client connections on is port 5800. This is referred to as the listener port. The following sections are included in a ProjectWise server's DMSKRNL.CFG file for configuring broadcasting and listening settings:
; ------------------------------------------------------------ ; Section defines broadcasting settings (UDP connections) ; ------------------------------------------------------------ [Broadcast] ; Port number for broadcasting list of datasources Port=5799 ; Name of service in etc\services file to use if port is not specified ;Name=dmsbdr ...
; ------------------------------------------------------------ ; Section defines listening settings (TCP connections) ; ------------------------------------------------------------ [Listener] ; Port number for incoming TCP connections Port=5800 ; Name of service in etc\services file to use if port is not specified ;Name=dms ...
You can leave the defaults as is or change them as necessary. If you change the broadcasting (UDP) port on the server, no configuration on your client computers is necessary. If you change the listening (TCP) port on the server, you will have to also change the port specified on your clients' ProjectWise Network Configuration Settings dialog.