Re: Communications pref?

Posted in 1998

Art S. Kagel — Thu, 22 Oct 1998 14:56:21 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Brian Hampson wrote: > > Given the following communications available, we are presently using > TCP/IP, don't have IPX on the machine, and I wonder about the STREAMS > method: > > TLI using TCP/IP > TLI using IPX/SPX > IPC using stream pipe > > Might the stream pipe method be FASTER than the TCP/IP on our Data General > Server? Yes it will be but steam pipe is only useful for local clients running on the server box. BTW shared memory (ipcshmem) is also available on your platform (and on all platforms) it is just universal so it is not mentioned in the release notes files and shared memory is the fastest method of all so long as the security issues are not a problem for you. Art S. Kagel