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  • From: Steve Langasek <vorlon AT netexpress.net>
  • To: freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] UDP, freeTDS and a v0.61 question
  • Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 13:51:29 -0600

Dave,

On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 02:32:20PM -0500, Coleman, Dave wrote:

> Does the TDS specification include any mechanism for providing packet
> redundancy? Obviously, the UDP protocol will not provide this.

> With regards to the fact that TDS uses UDP:
> * If I am utilizing only the tds layer of code, is there any
> protection for corrupted/dropped network packets?
> * Is it possible to use a TCP socket for this?
> * Does the TDS protocol support the use of TCP?

Color me confused -- what version of FreeTDS did you say you're using,
which uses a udp transport? Every MS SQL server I've worked with uses
tcp, at least; and I can't imagine Sybase would be any different in this
regard.

--
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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