FreeTDS Development Group

["Scott C. Gray" <gray AT voicenet.com>]

On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Brian Bruns wrote:
> 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.

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

For what its worth, the 'master' line is used by server applications,
such as ASE or Open Servers to tell it which interface and port to
listen for clients on.  A server may have mutliple 'master' lines
if it wishes to listen on multiple network interfaces...for example,
on NT, I may want my ASE server listening on MS Named Pipes for Windoze
clients and on winsock for UNIX clients.

-scott


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