Subject | RE: [firebird-support] Firebird 1.5 over VPN |
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Author | Almond |
Post date | 2003-08-27T03:43:51Z |
Hello. I read the document about using zebedee. Anybody have experience on
the benefit of it ? Any benchmark on the overall improvement ?
Best regards,
Almond Wong
At 14:01 03/08/26 +0100, you wrote:
the benefit of it ? Any benchmark on the overall improvement ?
Best regards,
Almond Wong
At 14:01 03/08/26 +0100, you wrote:
> > Has anyone experience using a client, written in Delphi 7, with
> > Firebird as the backend over a vpn connection.
>
>I've used delphi 4, and IB6 but the behaviour should be the same
>
> > My customer has multiple warehouses. He wants to connect to the
> > centralized database from both the LAN and WAN. Also he wants to be
> > able to take his laptop with him on the road, connect via the
> > internet, etc.. . .
> >
> > I would appreciate any advise based on prior experience.
> >
> > Dixon
>
>we've tried a variety of solutions, using Putty (freeware ssh client),
>SecureCRT (commercial ssh client), CygWin (ssh server which runs on win32),
>a linux ssh gateway to a w2k machine, and VPN. They all worked fine, however
>the VPN solution seemed to run slower (we think due to more traffic
>overhead). Putty and SecureCRT allow optional compression which benefitted
>our application a lot as it passes quite a lot of VarChars around (which are
>padded out during transmission).
>
>Kind regards,
>Pete
>
>
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