Re: tli vs sockets

In article <6r9vt6$aek$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, timhood@bigfoot.com wrote: > In article <6r4n6p$qtp$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, > hkoduru@national.aaa.com wrote: > > Hi, Does anyone know why Informix has stoped supporting Sockets based > > connections to the server. In sqlhosts file the NETTYPE can only be > > 'ontlitcp' and not 'onsoctcp'. Why this change (I am talking about ODS 723). > > What are the ramifications to us poor users. > > > > Actually, they haven't. The nettypes supported are on a platform by platform > basis. We are using onsoctcp on our DECs running 7.24. > > -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- > http://www.dejanews.com/rg_mkgrp.xp Create Your Own Free Member Forum Thanks for the responses - let me summarise: Sun has moved from being a Berkley 4.x based O/S to a System V Rel 5.4 base. This implies supporting sockets as a layer on top of the base TLI and Informix reacted accordingly. You can see this in the $INFORMIXDIR/release/... directory in the file called ONLINE_7.2 under the head Machine specific notes. > -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/rg_mkgrp.xp Create Your Own Free Member Forum