Why EAP6 is unable to use ports greater than 32767 ?

Issue

• While trying to do failover from app1 to app2 it failed. And getting following ERROR log that it use -1089 instead of 4447 as below:

01:09:54,313 INFO  [org.jboss.ejb.client.remoting.RemotingConnectionClusterNodeManager] (pool-7-thread-100) Could not create a connection for cluster node ClusterNode{clusterName='ejb', nodeName='node2', clientMappings=[ClientMapping{sourceNetworkAddress=/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0, sourceNetworkMaskBits=0, destinationAddress='10.10.10.10', destinationPort=-1089}], resolvedDestination=[Destination address=10.10.10.10, destination port=-1089]} in cluster ejb: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: port out of range:-1089
    at java.net.InetSocketAddress.checkPort(Unknown Source) [rt.jar:1.7.0_60]
    at java.net.InetSocketAddress.<init>(Unknown Source) [rt.jar:1.7.0_60]
    at org.jboss.ejb.client.remoting.NetworkUtil.connect(NetworkUtil.java:132) [jboss-ejb-client-1.0.25.Final-redhat-1.jar:1.0.25.Final-redhat-1]
    at org.jboss.ejb.client.remoting.ConnectionPool.getConnection(ConnectionPool.java:75) [jboss-ejb-client-1.0.25.Final-redhat-1.jar:1.0.25.Final-redhat-1]
    at org.jboss.ejb.client.remoting.RemotingConnectionManager.getConnection(RemotingConnectionManager.java:51) [jboss-ejb-client-1.0.25.Final-redhat-1.jar:1.0.25.Final-redhat-1]
    at org.jboss.ejb.client.remoting.RemotingConnectionClusterNodeManager.getEJBReceiver(RemotingConnectionClusterNodeManager.java:77) [jboss-ejb-client-1.0.25.Final-redhat-1.jar:1.0.25.Final-redhat-1]
    at org.jboss.ejb.client.ClusterContext.getEJBReceiverContext(ClusterContext.java:173) [jboss-ejb-client-1.0.25.Final-redhat-1.jar:1.0.25.Final-redhat-1]
    at org.jboss.ejb.client.ClusterContext.getEJBReceiverContext(ClusterContext.java:94) [jboss-ejb-client-1.0.25.Final-redhat-1.jar:1.0.25.Final-redhat-1]
    at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBClientContext.getClusterEJBReceiverContext(EJBClientContext.java:938) [jboss-ejb-client-1.0.25.Final-redhat-1.jar:1.0.25.Final-redhat-1]
    at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBClientContext.getClusterEJBReceiverContext(EJBClientContext.java:923) [jboss-ejb-client-1.0.25.Final-redhat-1.jar:1.0.25.Final-redhat-1]
    at org.jboss.ejb.client.ReceiverInterceptor.handleInvocation(ReceiverInterceptor.java:108) [jboss-ejb-client-1.0.25.Final-redhat-1.jar:1.0.25.Final-redhat-1]
    at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBClientInvocationContext.sendRequest(EJBClientInvocationContext.java:183) [jboss-ejb-client-1.0.25.Final-redhat-1.jar:1.0.25.Final-redhat-1]
    at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBInvocationHandler.sendRequestWithPossibleRetries(EJBInvocationHandler.java:253) [jboss-ejb-client-1.0.25.Final-redhat-1.jar:1.0.25.Final-redhat-1]
    at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBInvocationHandler.doInvoke(EJBInvocationHandler.java:198) [jboss-ejb-client-1.0.25.Final-redhat-1.jar:1.0.25.Final-redhat-1]
    at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBInvocationHandler.doInvoke(EJBInvocationHandler.java:181) [jboss-ejb-client-1.0.25.Final-redhat-1.jar:1.0.25.Final-redhat-1]
    at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBInvocationHandler.invoke(EJBInvocationHandler.java:144) [jboss-ejb-client-1.0.25.Final-redhat-1.jar:1.0.25.Final-redhat-1]
    at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy126.getCurrentVersionNo(Unknown Source)
    at com.cityline.cvrs.online.service.CacheRefreshService.checker(CacheRefreshService.java:38) [cvrs-online-web-fundamental-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar:]
    at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor43.invoke(Unknown Source) [:1.7.0_60]
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) [rt.jar:1.7.0_60]
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) [rt.jar:1.7.0_60]
    at org.springframework.scheduling.support.ScheduledMethodRunnable.run(ScheduledMethodRunnable.java:65) [spring-context-4.0.6.RELEASE.jar:4.0.6.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.scheduling.support.DelegatingErrorHandlingRunnable.run(DelegatingErrorHandlingRunnable.java:54) [spring-context-4.0.6.RELEASE.jar:4.0.6.RELEASE]
    at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source) [rt.jar:1.7.0_60]
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.runAndReset(Unknown Source) [rt.jar:1.7.0_60]
    at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$301(Unknown Source) [rt.jar:1.7.0_60]
    at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(Unknown Source) [rt.jar:1.7.0_60]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source) [rt.jar:1.7.0_60]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) [rt.jar:1.7.0_60]
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) [rt.jar:1.7.0_60]