I am not sure if this can help, or even tried it, but theorically it should
work...

What about if you use ipchains/iptables to forward the requests from a
server to another ?

Any comments about it ?

Alexandre Benson Smith
Development
THOR Software
Santo Andre - Sao Paulo - Brazil
www.thorsoftware.com.br

At 08:39 18/10/2002 +0200, you wrote:

>[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.