Tom Miller wrote:

> linux1fb:~ # ifconfig
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:3E:EA:08:9C
> inet addr:143.0.0.86 Bcast:143.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> RX bytes:10884157 (10.3 Mb) TX bytes:70090 (68.4 Kb)

Obviously working since you have 10MB of traffic.

> linux1fb:~ # route -v -n
> 143.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
> 0.0.0.0 143.0.0.5 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

Routing also looks ok. Have you tried this:

bin/isql 143.0.0.5:/opt/firebird/examples/empbuild/employee.fdb

>>lsof | grep LISTEN
> xinetd 2546 root 5u IPv4
> 7947 TCP *:gds_db (LISTEN)

All ok.

Perhaps it's a firewall problem, show us the output of:

iptables -t filter --list


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