Sybase DC35823-01-1500-04 manual Understanding the format of the interfaces file

CHAPTER 5 Setting Up Communications Across the Network

Figure 5-2: Establishing network connections in a homogeneous environment

	Harpo SQL		Get Chico’s
		server
			address and
Homogeneous			make an RPC.
clients
Get Harpo’s
address and
connect.
		Harpo
		xxxxx
		Chico
		xxxxx
	Chico SQL
Get Chico’s address		server
and connect.

Understanding the format of the interfaces file

The following rules apply to the format of interfaces file entries:

•Each Adaptive Server has only one entry, although there may be multiple lines in the entry.

•Each line that follows the servername line must begin with a space or a character tab.

•Each element on the line must be separated by a single space.

•Each entry is separated by a blank line.

•You can add comments to an interfaces file by adding a pound sign (#) at the beginning of the line and a line break at the end.

There are two interfaces file entry formats, TLI and TCP.

A TLI style entry looks like:

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