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- From: justice@dao.nrc.ca (Gerald Justice)
- Subject: Can SYBASE Server listen on two ethernet interfaces?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.014046.6506@sol.UVic.CA>
- Keywords: SYBASE server ethernet interfaces subnets
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- Organization: NRC/DAO/CADC
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 01:40:46 GMT
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- We have two ethernet interfaces on our SS2 server and we would like to have
- clients on both of the attached subnets be able to connect to the "direct"
- interface rather than be routed through another sun server to get to the
- SS2's primary ethernet interface. For more remote clients we still want to
- avoid the extra hop by going to the closest interface. But apparently the
- Sybase server only listens on one interface. A call to Tech Support
- seems to confirm this but it was not at all apparent that the person I
- spoke really even understood what I wanted to do. By the way this is not
- a performance issue so much as a reliability issue, we don't want the
- remote sites to have to depend on the third-party server having to be up just
- to route the packets to the second sub-net. If we turn it around then it
- becomes a performance issue because we will be moving our local traffic which
- is much more significant through this third-party server and that would be
- unacceptable. We could reconfigure the topology so that the local traffic
- and remote traffic appear on the same sub-net but it seemed so simple to
- have two interfaces and after all whoever heard of a network application
- which cared what interface the connections were arriving on?
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- Gerald Justice
- Unix Systems (and Sybase) Manager
- Phone: (604) 363-0055 PDT Fax: (604) 363-0045 Telex: 049-7295
- Internet: justice@dao.nrc.ca Mail: Dominion Astrophysical Observatory
- National Research Council (Canada)
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