Thomas Steinmaurer wrote:

>>
>>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.
>>
>
> your connection string looks a bit strange, because the server name (IP address)
> is included twice.
>

That is the point of the question. Each IP address is different. Address
A should pass all requests on to Address B.

I recall reading about this trick too - so you are not imagining things.
The InterBase engineers used to use it to do testing of new builds.
Unfortunately, I've never used it, but hopefully some else has.


Paul
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Paul Reeves
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