FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

> From: Steve Murphree [mailto:smurph AT smcomp.com]
> Sent: July 31, 2003 1:56 PM
> 
> I need to get my laptop working again (pothole in the hard 
> drive) to check traffic across the wire.

You might want to try windump.  It saves data in tcpdump(8) format and
behaves much the same way.    

> If we discovered the instance name in this manner, an 
> ODBC.INI or a freetds.conf entry would not be needed.  

For 2000 servers only, of course.  

It would be great if you want to add this, Steve.  I don't have the
requisite setup.  

> But do the Sybase servers do the same thing?  

No, it's quite different.  Sybase supports a few different ways, LDAP being
one and IIRC kerberos being another.  I haven't played with any of that.  

Isn't this what DNS was meant for?  

> I have no experience with any of the sybase servers.  

You could, you know.  Their Linux servers are free to download.  For the
older version they they permit free deployment; the new version is for
development only.  I installed it on Linux a year or so ago, but that box
gets used for all manner of things and is rarely actually running Sybase for
me.  One of these days, I'm going to run Sybase on NetBSD under Linux
emulation.  It's already been done by at least one other guy, so I'm told.  

> Is there
> any try/trial code servers from Sybase that will allow remote access?

Sure.  The PWD.in file and base freetds.conf point to Sybase's public "JDBC"
server.  

--jkl
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