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Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Mon, 9 Apr 2012 13:55:00 -0500

Hi Peter,

On 2012-04-09 Peter Milne wrote:
> CA tunnelled successfully over ssh:
> 
> (IOC:5064 port forwarded to localhost:10013)
> 
> export EPICS_CA_ADDR_LIST=localhost:10013
> export EPICS_CA_AUTO_ADDR_LIST=no
> export EPICS_CA_NAME_SERVERS=localhost:10013
> 
> camonitor cpsc_011_UPTIME
> cpsc_011_UPTIME 2012-04-09 19:02:06.116235 107056
> cpsc_011_UPTIME 2012-04-09 19:02:07.116355 107057
> 
> But on running css from the same shell session with the same exported
> variables, it's unable to see the PV
> 
> => Is it possible to view a tunneled PV from CSS?.

Does your CSS have JCA configured to use the Pure Java implementation of the 
CA client code, or the JNI implementation that calls OS-specific?  You can 
find that under Preferences => CSS Core => EPICS.

I suspect the pure Java implementation of JCA doesn't have the ability to make 
TCP-only connections (added to Base in 3.14.12) which is required to tunnel CA 
over ssh. It should be possible to fix that by switching to JNI as long as the 
native libraries it uses are from Base-3.14.12 or later.  Unfortunately I also 
suspect the CSS distributions have not updated those Base libraries recently, 
so you might have some difficulties with this unless you build your own 
package.

- Andrew
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