Hi Alan,

I'll be able to tell you in a day or so, I'm driving off to the
customers site now, and there, the machine will be given back it's
original ip address, so if it is sth I messed up by changed the IP as
I did, it should be ok again.

I'll let you know wether it was that or not asap,

Dirk Naudts.

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Alan McDonald" <alan@m...>
wrote:

> > Thanks all for jumping in on this one !
> >
> > At least now I already know I'm not alone on this one :-)
> >
> > Perhaps some more details might help :
> > - Our customer has done the server setup, and gave it a fixed IP
> > address
> > - I'm a complete Linux newbie
> > - In order to do my application tests, I changed static IP

address

> > from customer Network address to static one in our network range,

so

> > I could connect to it from our network easily.
> > - I didn't edit any host tables whatsoever on neither side of the
> > connection.
> > - I'm connecting to the server via this static IP address, not
> > through it's name.
> > - IB EXpert also has the same problems when the connection is
> > inactive for some time.
> >
> > And now some questions :
> >
> > - Is this at all known to the firebird team ?
> > - Is FB 1.5 on Linux ruining in production environment anywhere ?
> > - Is this also happening with FB 1.0 on Linux ?
> > - Should IBO Version 4.2Ha be ok to connect to FB 1.51, or do I

need

> > the upgrade ?(for my tests I installed 4.3Aa, but I only own

4.2Ha,

> > so I should go into production with that version unless I know I

have

> > to purchase 4.3Aa.
> > - Would a dum query (select current_date from rdb$database or

sth)

> > run on a timer basis hide this problem ?
>
> it really shouldn't be necessary and is a waste of network

resources to do

> it. There must be something else causing it and it's unlikley to be

Firebird

> or IBO related. It's a network issue I'd say. Changing the given

fixed IP to

> another one in a different range may be the cause without also

looking in

> the server's hosts file etc to make sure you don't have other things
> mal-aligned.
> Alan
>
> >
> >
> > Thanks again,
> >
> > Dirk Naudts.
> > ATS Belgium.