For the telnet issue:

You need to make sure you are overriding the default telnet port of 23 with
the firebird port of 3050

"telnet <ip address> 3050" should let you test to see if that port is
accessible and listening.

-steve

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 8:36 PM, trskopo <trskopo@...> wrote:

> **
>
>
> Hi Baskin,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> I have disable Windows Firewall, and tried to telnet that port on Win 7,
> it failed, it seems, unable to connect, but there are few things that I
> don't understand :
> 1) I have another OS running as guest via Virtual Box, this time the OS is
> Windows XP 32bit, firebird 2.5.1 (32bit) superserver
> 2) I installed again a new CentOS 6.3 (via Virtual Box), firebird
> 2.5.2(64bit) superserver
>
> Both OS (WinXp and new CentOS) failed on telnet, error msg 'Could not open
> connection to the host on port 23', but firebird on these OS works ok.
>
> File system on new CentOs is ext4, while on old CentOS is ext3.
>
> I have tested firebird perf on new CentOS with ext4 and is is bad, even
> with barrier setting set to off.
>
> I can install again CentOs with ext3, but before I do that, if possible, I
> would like to find out what is the problem in my old CentOs with ext3 ?
> Finding problem might help me / other when face sam problem.
>
> Sugi
>
>
> --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "btapkan" <baskint@...> wrote:
> >
> > Sugi,
> >
> > Can you telnet to that port on Windows 7? If not, your Windows-7
> firewall can be the culprit. To check, simply disable the port and re-try
> telnet and connection. If successful, you can add port exceptions to your
> firewall and turn it back on.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> >
> > Baskin
> >
> > --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "trskopo" <trskopo@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I have installed Firebird 2.5.2(64bit) Superserver on CentOS 6.3 (64
> bit).
> > >
> > > This CentOs server running on Virtual Box as a guest system. Host
> system is Win 7 64 bit.
> > >
> > > I can ping server's ip address but failed to connect to Firebird via
> flamerobin installed on Win 7.
> > >
> > > I got an error message : 'Unable to complete network request to host
> xxx. Failed to establish a connection'
> > >
> > > I have check that firebird server is running and listening on port
> 3050 on CentOs. (using command via terminal-> ps aux|grep fbserver and
> netstat -an | grep 3050).
> > >
> > > Firewall on CentOS also disabled.
> > >
> > > Did I miss something here?
> > >
> > > Thanks and regards,
> > > Sugi.
> > >
> >
>
>
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