Well , our configuration is based on Eclipse Europa, Jboss 4.2.1 and jbosstools 2.1.2. While the server starts correctly without the -b option, if we specify "-b 172.28.x.x" the server start hangs on log4j initialization: 11:02:49,239 DEBUG [ServiceController] Creating service jboss:service=WebService | 11:02:49,239 DEBUG [WebService] Creating jboss:service=WebService | 11:02:49,239 INFO [WebService] Using RMI server codebase: http://paolo:28083/ | 11:02:49,239 DEBUG [WebService] Created jboss:service=WebService | 11:02:49,239 DEBUG [ServiceController] Creating dependent components for: jboss:service=WebService dependents are: [] | 11:02:49,239 DEBUG [ServiceController] Creating service jboss:service=Naming | 11:02:49,239 DEBUG [ServiceController] waiting in create of jboss:service=Naming waiting on jboss:service=NamingBeanImpl | 11:02:49,239 DEBUG [ServiceController] Creating service jboss.system:type=Log4jService,service=Logging | 11:02:49,239 DEBUG [Log4jService] Creating jboss.system:type=Log4jService,service=Logging | 11:02:49,239 INFO [Log4jService$URLWatchTimerTask] Configuring from URL: resource:jboss-log4j.xml | | (boot.log end here) | as you can see, jboss correctly bounds the RMI port to http://paolo:28083/ , but then it stops. IMHO the problem is in some kind of "port interference" , triggered by the usage of -b option. Could it be ? Many thanks View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4209436#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...