Subject Re: [firebird-support] Need clarification on remote firebird connection
Author Helen Borrie
At 06:20 AM 7/08/2005 +0000, Kenneth Man wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>Please help me to clarify some questions on two firebird server
>connected remotely.
>
>1. When server 1 is sending data to server 2 and the connection
>breaked, will server 1 keep trying to send data to server 2 or will the
>process time out automatically?
>
>2. Assuming the process will time out automatically, is it safe to
>connect these two server at all time (knowing the remote connection will
>break at random time) or just connect and disconnect everytime when demand
>is needed?
>
>Using Firebird superserver 1.5 on Win 2003 server

Then, you wrote:

..A client using IBO connect to two firebird servers (1 local and 1 remote).

We still need more.

Is one client *application* connecting to two firebird servers at once;

or

Are two different applications on the same client *machine* each connecting
to a different server?

It makes a difference to the answer to this question!

./heLen