Helen Borrie wrote:

> >Helen,
> >
> >when is there realy a need to use local protocol?
> >I never got into these traps as i never do anything else than tcp/ip.
>
> It's necessary with the current implementation of Fb Embedded. Also,
> some
> people like it for development and ad hoc stuff because there's less
> typing. I confess to doing this myself sometimes.
>
> Other than that, I regard IPServer as just a relic from the early days of
> Delphi and the BDE, when IB was distributed in a crippled form
> ("iblocal")
> that allowed you to use IB on the local disk for development purposes
> only,
> without any client licenses, on Windows 3.1, Win95, which didn't support
> TCP/IP out of the box.
>
> Originally, I think it was some hacker's "Windows answer" to direct local
> connect on Unix. I believe the original iblocal did actually connect
> directly to the database, though I wasn't around then.
>
> Now I'll take cover and let the IPServer stalwarts flame me. I won't
> answer. :-)
>
> IPServer has been replaced in Firebird 2, with a different local protocol
> that uses XNET and behaves like a more proper network protocol.
>
> ./hb

Thanks,

exactly like i thought, no need for it if you don't do Embedded.

Uwe