Hi,

> The fact is I did ran both IB and FB on the same port on my computer
> and seems to work well.

You're talking nonsense here. Two applications/services CANNOT
be listening on the same port.

I bet that if you check the server log of one of them, you will see
errors in it about being "unable to bind to the port" or something
similar.


With regards,

Martijn Tonies
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