Re: oninit failure

David Williams (djw@smooth1.demon.co.uk) wrote: : >The quick way to get it restarted is to hash out the line in /etc/services = : >for the port id and add another. Informix will then restart immediately. : >If you are using Informix connectivity across machines you will need to = : >change the port id on all machines, but it does give you a quick restart = : >for the server concerned. : Nope, it is part of the specification of TCP/IP that it does not time : out straight away. What if an old packet from a previous connection : to a long time to arrive. It might be interpreted as part of the : current connection.. True. But there's also parameter in the kernel allows you to adjust how much time before timeout. Ours (AIX) call tcp_keepidle, some other would call tcp_keepalive. Default being 2 hours and we are setting it to 15min with yet to see ill effect. But yes, the quick way is to use different port if you don't need to change every frontend client setup (like NewEra :-().. Chris