> Whatever I set the DriverManager's timeout to (ex 10 or 40), Jaybird
> will only timeout after 25 secs

The connection timeout is not supported since Firebird does not have this
feature. In fact this is more hosting OS issue, than Firebird's. Driver
establishes a socket connection to the Firebird server, at this point it no
longer controls the execution thread. Firebird, when it accepts the
connection, also replies very fast (that is relatively small task). The main
delay is the underlying networking in Java and OS and we have little control
over this issue.

Roman