TCPView is a good start, and you can also use 'netstat -a' to see all ports that are in use.
On Windows platforms, you need to be aware of various services that will randomly take ports. Some examples are Windows Update, Exchange/Outlook, and as you noticed IM tools, and many more than can be listed. For the safest bet on running production, look at changing the port numbers used by Jboss (see service-binding-manager or something like that) to much higher number ranges to avoid this problem (particularly 1098 and 1099 ports). my two coppers, -D View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3830800#3830800 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3830800 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user