SSH tunnels work just fine, encrypting and compressing traffic between
hosts, so I'd imagine Stunnel will work as well.

If you've got a unix box on(or near) the server side, try this:

ssh user@unixserver -L3050:IP.of.firebird.server:3050 -C -g

A breakdown of this is:
The '-L3050' opens a listening port on your machine that you're typing this
on.
The 'IP.of.server:3050' is the outlet of the tunnel, pointing straight to
the Firebird service port on the server
The '-C' turns on compression - handy for skinny links
The '-g' allows other hosts to connect to your tunnel - your computer
becomes a concentrator, and can forward firebird connections from other
computers through the tunnel.

Easy!

Nige.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Wilson [mailto:ijwilson@...]
> Sent: Friday, 18 March 2005 7:49 AM
> To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [firebird-support] Stunnel?
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Has anyone been able to connect to firebird over a network
> using stunnel?
>
> ie. firebird client -==- stunnel on client -==internet==-
> stunnel on server
> -==- firebird server
>
> I don't know what I am doing but in /etc/services there is a
> tcp and udp port for gds_db while on the stunnel site it says
> that udp is not necessarily supported.
>
> I see that some people have mentioned zebedee but I am using
> Suse SLES9 and stunnel comes on the CDs.. and I would rather
> use it because otherwise I would have to keep zebedee up to
> date manually.
>
> Thanks,
> -Ian
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