> This worked in IB4,IB5, but it is broken in IB6/FB1.
> It is already logged as bug on sourceforge (see Multi-hop server

ability broken).

>

Thanks Ivan, we now know what to do. Since this bug is already open a
fairly long time, it probably will not be fixed any time soon.

> > to the user. However we need to be able to login to different

machines while

> > fetching data from the same database.
>
> Now I am not sure how do you want to use "multi-hop" to achieve the

goal above ?

>

First of all this is an extension to one of our products. In this
application, we control a machine by means of (socket) commands. Up
until now, the database server and the machine to be controlled were
the same machine (ie. same IP).Therefore we could use the same IP to
connect to machine and to connect to the database.
However, for a certain customer we will deliver an environment were
two machines are controlled for the same database (which resides at
at third machine). If we could keep using the first IP address to
connect to machine then we would have added the IP of the actual DB
server to dbpath and have the machine perform the "Multihop" to
achieve our goal. By doing so, we would have been able to create this
environment without changing the application.

Since this is not working as we hoped, we will have to adapt the
application...

BTW, I tried to activate the hop with a alias(FB 1.5) but that did
not even connect... You might want to add that to the bug
description... I used a alias "mydb =
192.168.1.2:c:\data\mydatabase.gdb" and accessed it
with "192.168.1.1:mydb"

Thanks all for your investigations and answers. This helps us a lot.

Regards,

Diederik