Sybase DC35823-01-1500-04 manual Heterogeneous and homogeneous environments

CHAPTER 5 Setting Up Communications Across the Network

If your site has multiple installations

A client’s interfaces file does not need a master line. It functions correctly with only a query line.

If you have more than one Adaptive Server installation, each server’s interfaces file should contain information about all servers on the network.

If all of your server products are running on the same platform, you can create one master interfaces file and copy that file to each machine. For more information, see “Creating a master interfaces file” on page 58.

If the host machine supports multiple networks, see “Configuring interfaces files for multiple networks” on page 59.

Heterogeneous and homogeneous environments

You can run Adaptive Server and clients on the same platform or on different platforms.

If the platforms are different, each platform may require a different format and configuration for its interfaces file. Figure 5-1 illustrates how a PC client uses network information in its interfaces file (sql.ini) to connect to Adaptive Server running under UNIX, and how Adaptive Server uses its interfaces file to connect to another server during a remote procedure call.

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