On 22-4-2016 20:22, Helen Borrie helebor@... [firebird-support]
wrote:

> Mark, since the OP was referring to "aliases.conf" he evidently isn't
> trying to work with Firebird 3, which doesn't have aliases.conf.
>
> In prior releases, firebird.conf is relevant locally only if the
> client is fbembed.dll (renamed or not) and the developer wanted
> non-default config settings. The OP (a self-confessed newbie) was
> asking about remote connections.

As far as I know even in Firebird 2.5 and earlier, settings like
ConnectionTimeout, TcpRemoteBufferSize and maybe some other settings
affected the client.

Mark
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Mark Rotteveel