FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT umcc.ais.org>]

Currently, the master line is not used by us.  It's a carry over from
Sybase. 

So:
<server name>
<whitespace> <service name> <transport> <interface> <host> <port number>

Service:      the only service that is used is "query"
transport:    is ignored, but needed for compatibility ("tcp" is fine)
interface:    is ignored, but needed for compatibility ("ether" is fine).
Host:         a hostname, fqdn, or ip address of the SQL Server
Port number:  is of course the port where the SQL Server listens

The easiest is of course just to grab one of the example servers and
change the name, host and port :)

Hope this helps

Brian

On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Tom wrote:

> 
>   What is the format of the "interfaces" file?  I'm presuming that this is
> where I define my servers, but it isn't clear what the difference because
> the "query" and "master" lines.
> 
> Tom
> 
>