Error connect: can't assign requested address o n DGUX

Brian Bruns camber at ais.org
Fri May 11 16:38:03 EDT 2001



My guess is that autoconf is broke.  TDS 5.0 is the default and we did
something to screw up configure.in on non-Linux platforms (although I'd
like to hear from Solaris/FreeBSD/etc.. users on a recent snapshot to see
how some of the more mainstream platforms faired).

Brian

On Fri, 11 May 2001, Kelly Sauke wrote:

> Thanks for the help folks.  It seems the $TDSVER trick worked.  It all of a
> sudden started working yesterday and I couldn't figure out what was
> different but I did indeed set the TDSVER variable about 20 minutes before.
> After you mentioned that, it became clear to me what I had changed.  Now,
> why does that change things on a DGUX machine, when its not needed on Linux?
> They were both built with identical ./configure --with-tdsver=7.0 arguments.
> 
> Kelly Sauke
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Cameron [mailto:cameron at stl.dec.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 10:17 PM
> To: TDS Development Group
> Subject: [freetds] Re: Error connect: can't assign requested address on
> DGUX
> 
> 
> Something to add for Kelly's problem after I read James Lowden's
> response ...
> 
> ... try that TDSVER trick, it worked for me when it should not have.
> 
> Although I had built FreeTDS identically on a Linux Intel and a Compaq
> Tru64 UNIX Alpha, using --with-tdsver=4.2, the code was defaulting to
> 5.0 on the Alpha.
> 
> What gave it away for Brian and I was that the dump file showed a packet
> stream that was longer and had the different version numbers.
> 
> So if you have one working system and one not working, set the TDSDUMP
> environment variable so as to compare the two dumps?
> 
> Also consider changing the "ether" in the interfaces file to "4.2" ...
> yet another way to encourage the version change.
> 




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