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- From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield)
- Subject: Re: Sybase Support
- In-Reply-To: ben@sybase.com's message of 25 Jan 93 04: 13:25 GMT
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- Organization: Morning Star Technologies
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:06:13 GMT
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- In article <28529@sybase.sybase.com> ben@sybase.com (Benjamin von Ullrich) writes:
- i'm writing to try to assuage any image that sybase technical
- support is less than professional and dedicated.
-
- Thanks for your comments - a revealing look inside a typical company
- in this industry. I'm the tech support manager here, and your
- comments ring true regarding the problems of engineering resource
- allocation, problem and solution discovery methods, 3rd-party
- interoperability testing, and all the rest. It's hard hard to find
- people who are technically competent, possess good interpersonal
- skills, and are willing to devote their career path to answering
- questions. When I find people like that I snatch them up quick :-)
-
- PPP and SLIP, while stated clones of TCP, apparently are not in
- some critical way that seems to confuse Sybase.
-
- As it turned out through further discussions in this newsgroup, the
- problem was simply one of addressing. The SLIP- or PPP-connected host
- needed to be identified to Sybase's access control files by the IP
- address of its SLIP or PPP interface, rather than the address of its
- LAN interface, if those two differed. It's simply a configuration
- problem, not a fundamental incompatibility.
-
- It would be worthwhile, probably, to be compatible with these
- products, but i think such ventures into new capabilities are
- limited to specification by a marketing organization. i know
- marketing has a pc certification lab for vendors to come through
- and test their products with our to insure compatibility; i'm not
- sure any SLIP or PPP software has been tested.
-
- Yes, Paul Beduhn has had our UNIX-based PPP/SLIP product running on a
- Sun there for over a year, talking over dialup PPP links to SQL query
- clients running on both UNIX systems and DOS boxes. I don't know what
- group he works with inside Sybase, but maybe you can track him down
- using the company phone book.
-
- Since it is PPP's job to be compatible with applications running in
- your platform's TCP/IP driver, it would be worthwhile for you to
- ask your PPP vendor why this connectivity doesn't work.
-
- The original inquirer was using a freely-available PPP implementation,
- so he had nobody to turn to for help besides the net. But, since a
- dial-up point-to-point link (PPP or SLIP) just transports IP packets
- exactly the same as any other network, it wasn't a matter of what link
- software he was using. Once he got the names and addresses
- straightened out in the Sybase access authorization file, everything
- worked correctly.
- --
- Bob Sutterfield, Morning Star Technologies +1 614 451 1883
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- bob@MorningStar.Com +1 614 459 5054 (FAX)
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