FreeTDS Development Group

["Steve Murphree" <smurph AT smcomp.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>
To: "'FreeTDS Development Group'" <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 12:40 PM
Subject: RE: [freetds] Applying Steve Murphee patch (2)


> Why do you say the driver blindly attempts to connect to a range of ports?

Just from the way it looked when I was trying it.  I thought it might be
polling ports.  I have since installed etherreal on my Windows box and I
want to play around with it.  I'll go have a look at that code now as well.
I need to get my laptop working again (pothole in the hard drive) to check
traffic across the wire.

> I've been ignoring named instances because they looked like nothing more
> than an extra entry in freetds.conf.  From your description of the ODBC
API,
> it sounds like we really need to implement the discovery protocol if we're
> going to support them properly.  Would you agree?

Yes.  If we discovered the instance name in this manner, an ODBC.INI or a
freetds.conf entry would not be needed.  But do the Sybase servers do the
same thing?  I have no experience with any of the sybase servers.  Is there
any try/trial code servers from Sybase that will allow remote access?

Steve