RE: Re[2]: [Firebird-devel] Using Fbembed as a client for IB5.6

[Dmitry Y. <di...@us...>]

Nando,

> DY> The current builds allow fbembed.dll to be a client for
> remote servers.
>
> what about allowing it to forward even local connections to a server
> located in the same machine? Does it make sense?

No, I don't think so.

> I am thinking about existing installations that use local connection,
> into which I must inject fbembed, so that I would have one embedded
> connection to fbembed and one local connection to IBServer.
> I could change the latter to a local TCP connection, but what if the
> (old) machine doesn't have TCP?

I thought that FB cannot run on machines without TCP stack installed. Even
backup/restore code uses winsock routines.


Dmitry