I think the membership-port-range determines the port that the server side of the TCP socket is listening on.
What I see in your log statement is the port number of the client side of the socket (where it says localport=37392). The port for the client side of a socket comes from the ephemeral port range configured on your OS - usually 32768–60999 in linux. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeral_port -Dan ________________________________ From: Jakov Varenina <jakov.varen...@est.tech> Sent: Monday, May 2, 2022 5:49 AM To: dev@geode.apache.org <dev@geode.apache.org> Subject: Peer-to-peer connections use the --server-port causing the server to hang during startup ⚠ External Email Hi devs, We have noticed that some peer-to-peer connections use ports outside the range defined by the membership-port-range (41000-61000) parameter: [vm1] membership-port-range=41000-61000 [vm1] [debug 2022/05/02 11:15:57.968 CEST server-1 <RMI TCP Connection(1)-192.168.1.36> tid=0x1a] starting peer-to-peer handshake on socket Socket[addr=/192.168.1.36,port=49913,*localport=37392*] Is it expected that peer-to-peer connections use ports outside the above range? Also, due to the above behavior, the following bug occurs: https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fissues.apache.org%2Fjira%2Fbrowse%2FGEODE-10268&data=05%7C01%7Cdasmith%40vmware.com%7Cf61b0d0e14774737c7ee08da2c3a2e72%7Cb39138ca3cee4b4aa4d6cd83d9dd62f0%7C0%7C0%7C637870925648179770%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=VJQGl83OSKWTWwn%2FR7bdJorcQqAP3goEPz4cddHHgZM%3D&reserved=0 <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fissues.apache.org%2Fjira%2Fbrowse%2FGEODE-10268&data=05%7C01%7Cdasmith%40vmware.com%7Cf61b0d0e14774737c7ee08da2c3a2e72%7Cb39138ca3cee4b4aa4d6cd83d9dd62f0%7C0%7C0%7C637870925648179770%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=VJQGl83OSKWTWwn%2FR7bdJorcQqAP3goEPz4cddHHgZM%3D&reserved=0> Best Regards, Jakov ________________________________ ⚠ External Email: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender.