Hi,

This probably has nothing to do with your problem, but in case it does
here I go:

We ran into problems in the past where first loading up our application
would take 1-2 minutes, but once the connection was done it would work
fine. We finally traced it to a combination of using Windows 95/98
clients with DHCP and the BDE. We were specifying a gateway and DNS
server in the network settings, but leaving the IP address blank to
automatically get assigned. I guess Win95/98 doesn't like that and
would attempt to resolve the server name in really weird ways (we did a
monitored the network data to/from the affected machines) and the
computer would sit there until the DNS lookups finally gave up (we used
IP address to specify the db servers so it didn't even need to bother
looking it up). When we removed the gateway and DNS server and let the
computer get that info from the DHCP server it didn't bother trying to
lookup the IP address of the IP address (dumb, I know) and would connect
really fast.

Anyways, like I said it was an older setup and it probably doesn't apply
to you, but now you know and knowing is half the battle.

-steve

On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 16:23 +0200, Albert wrote:

> We have moved two clients to a new network scheme as follows:
>
>
> CLIENTS 192.168.1.x
> ||
> ||
> || 192.168.1.10
> WEB SERVER / TERMINAL SERVER / ROUTER
> ||192.168.2.10
> ||
> ||
> SERVERS NETWORK 192.168.2.X
>
>
> We have thinking about this servers' subnet in order to isolate them
> to the
> main network and also to build a gigabit ethernet between them. There
> is a
> middle server who act as a web server, serves some terminals (clients
> who
> works into it) and also forwards the packets between the two networks
> (act
> as a router/firewall).
>
> All the net configuration is correct, all the network has normal
> connectivity, but the software running on the old clients (main
> network)
> seems to have some trouble connecting to the database servers on the
> subnet
> 2.x. We launch the program and it "hang" when connecting to the
> database for
> 1 minute, then it gets connected and everything works fine.
>
> We have one company running windows servers and the other one on
> linux. Both
> runs the same firebird version (1.5)
>
> On the clients the only thing I've done is add the routes to find the
> new
> subnet and change the database IP on the config files of the old
> software.
> Maybe I've forgotten some step?
>
>
> Surely this has nothing to do with firebird, but I've prefered ask
> first
> (maybe anyone has found it) before begin mounting various computers,
> configure the network and begin testing.
>
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Albert
>
>
>
>
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> on the main (top) menu. Try Knowledgebase and FAQ links !
>
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>
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>
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