One of our clients has a device called an Internet Gateway. It seems to be
a type of hub, sitting in the middle of the TCP/IP network, which enables
any of the computers to dial out to the Service Provider. It has an I P
address of its own - but it automatically assigns I P addresses to all the
computers.

This would seem to create problems for Interbase, which I understand can
only function over a TCP/IP network if a permanent relationship is
established between computers and I P addresses and this is recorded in the
hosts file which must reside on each computer.

Does anyone have any experience of this? Is there a workaround?

Peter Lawson