P4PORT

Description

For Perforce clients, the host and port number of the Perforce server or proxy with which to communicate.

Usage Notes

Used by Client?	Used by Server?	Command-Line Alternative	Can be set in P4CONFIG file?
Yes	Yes	p4 -p host:port cmd	Yes

Value if not Explicitly Set

Program	Value
Perforce server	1666
Perforce proxy	1666
Perforce client	perforce:1666

Examples

Perforce client examples	Perforce server examples
1818	1818
squid:1234	1234
perforce.squid.com:1234	1234
192.168.0.123:1818	1818

Notes

If you specify both an IP address and a port number in P4PORT, the Perforce server ignores requests from any IP addresses other than the one specified in P4PORT.

To use the default value perforce with a Perforce server, define perforce as an alias to the host running the server in /etc/hosts on UNIX, or in %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts on Windows, or use DNS.

Port numbers must be in the range 1024 through 32767.