Multiple Informix Session & 1525 Port

Hello, I think I know the answer but in case of I'm wrong ;-) If I run multiple instance of Informix Server [Same Version 14.10.FC3] on the same Linux Machine [Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.9], is it mandatory to have for each instance a different port ? Are we not able to use the standard port 1525 for all the instances ? Regards, ------------------------------ Noreddine Allay ------------------------------ #Informix

Noreddine: The combination of IP address (or host name) and Port # (or service name) must be unique among not just all instances on a single box but among all aliases of all instances on a single box. If your server has multiple DBSERVERALIAS entries that are network connections (say one for encrypted communication, another using SSL, etc.) then each much either use a different NIC or a different port on the same NIC. Art ------------------------------ Art S. Kagel, President and Principal Consultant ASK Database Management Corp. www.askdbmgt.com ------------------------------

We have some legacy Delphi apps that are locked to port 1525. As Art suggested, we've gotten around this by using multiple IPs, one for each DBSERVERNAME/DBSERVERALIAS that needs to listen on that port. ------------------------------ TOM GIRSCH ------------------------------