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The broker defaults to use port 5672 at startup for AMQP traffic.
If the management interface is enabled it starts on port 8999 by default.

Since Qpid 0.5 the The JMX management interface uses two ports. The specfied management port (Default:8999) and actually requires 2 ports to operate, the second of which is indicated to the client application during connection initiation to the main (default: 8999) port. Previously this second port has been chosen at random during broker startup, however since Qpid 0.5 this has been fixed to a port 100 higher than the main port(ie Default:9099) . It is not possible to specify the second port, it is always 100 higher than the specified management portin order to ease firewall navigation.

How can I change the port the broker uses at runtime ?

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