Re: [Firebird-devel] Connecting to Firebird on different ports: something is wrong.

[Martijn T. <m.t...@up...>]

Hi Dmitry,

> > Am I doing something wrong here? I thought that the parameter
> > should work on the SERVER only and not influence the client,
> > right?
>
> No, it's designed to be used in both server and client. All
remote-subsystem
> settings are configurable for the client too. Ability to specify a port
> number in the connection string is just an extra way to do the same. Note
> that it's impossible to specify port number in the connection string for
> Named Pipes and IPC/XNET - only via firebird.conf.

Well, that might be great and all... but then how are you supposed to
connect to a remote server on a different port then, if fbclient is
forcing itself to the port defined for your local firebird server? And
why is this "as designed"? I've changed "firebird.conf", this is a
server config file, right?

--
Martijn