You are most welcome.
(I still need to figure out how I can make money off all the InterBase
I've stuffed into my head)

Dave



-----Original Message-----
From: Geoff Worboys [mailto:gworboys@...]
Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2000 11:09 PM
To: IBDI@onelist.com
Subject: Re: [IBDI] Re: BETA testers needed to fill out a survey.


From: "Geoff Worboys" <gworboys@...>

David,

> > Exactly - this is one of the changes that IB needs, the ability to
> > define the IP port used by the client to allow defined routing
> > through a firewall.

[snip]

> InterBase has the ability to communicate over any port -- but it's
> certainly isn't well documented.
>
> Client side:
> Connection string "server:/database.gdb" is converted into
> "server/gds_db:/database.gdb". gds_db is looked up on the
> client side as (4050? I honestly can't remember!).
>
> If the client changes the connection string to
> server/protocol#:/database.gdb" -- then it uses that protocol

#.

> You can either put a symbolic name here (which is looked up on
> the client again) or a decimal number.

Thank you very very much! I got it to work. I could NOT use decimal
port
numbers, but I simply added my own named entries into the Services
file and
wallah, I could connect through a port routing definition on my
firewall (I
didn't even have to reboot which is pretty amazing under NT4 :-)

Now I can sit down and begin routing to the various servers that I
want to
remotely support!

Thanks again.

Geoff Worboys
Telesis Computing
gworboys@...


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