Sybase DC35823-01-1500-04 manual A P T E R 5 Setting Up Communications Across the Network

C H A P T E R 5 Setting Up Communications

Across the Network

Adaptive Server can communicate with other Adaptive Servers, Open Server applications, and client software across a network. Clients can communicate with one or more servers, and servers can communicate with other servers via remote procedure calls.

Topic	Page
How Adaptive Server determines which directory service entry to	50
use
How a client uses directory services	51
Creating a directory services entry	51
Supported directory drivers	52
Contents of an interfaces file	52
Heterogeneous and homogeneous environments	53
Understanding the format of the interfaces file	55
Creating a master interfaces file	58
Configuring interfaces files for multiple networks	59
IPv6 support	63
Troubleshooting	66

Directory services contains information about the network locations of servers. Directory services contain entries for all Adaptive Servers, Backup Servers, and other server products on the network.

In the Sybase client/server environment, a client can connect with Adaptive Server if it knows where the server resides on the network and if the server supports the client’s language or character set. When a client initiates a connection, it looks in its directory services for the network location of the target server.

Directory services list the name and address of every server, including Backup Server, Monitor Server, and XP Server. When you are using a client program, and you want to connect with a particular server, the client program looks up the server name in the directory services and connects to that server.

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