On 01 Oct 2014 05:21:37 -0700, "brucedickinson@... [firebird-support]"
<firebird-support@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

> Thank you,
>
> so I know that the second connection might be blocked by the Firewall

but

> what are the internal differences between these two type of connections?

Depending on the platform it might use XNET (windows) or an embedded-like
connection to connect to the database instead of using TCP/IP to connect.

Mark