[resent since the message never made it to news.atkin.com]

Hello All,

We are looking into the following:

We need to create a situation where two machines (FireBird DB servers) are a
sort of relaying servers to the actual FireBird DB server which holds the
DB-file. We need to do this since we have to run commands on the relaying
server, but need data from the database to do so.

I once read in a newsgroup (sorry, I cannot be more specific since I cannot
find that article again...)that a connection string of
"192.168.1.1:192.168.1.2:c:\data\mydatabase.gdb" should be able to do so. We
have tried this (in all kind of variations) but the result was that we could
connect and do eg. "show tables", but on performing any sql statement we
received an "901 - feature not supported" error.

My questions are: - Is this possible and if so, what is going wrong here?
- Can migrating to v1.5 help us?

BTW, the relaying machines are RedHat 7.3 and the actual DB Server is
Windows 2000 Server.

Thanks in advance,

Diederik Wierenga