Just a little bit of feedback (for those interested). A while back I
posted a reply to an HDR mail, saying that we have loads of problems
with HDR, and I was about to give up on using HDR. We kept loosing
the link between the 2, and I kept rebuilding the secondary server.

We tried crossover cables & dedicated switches to stabalise the network,
but this didn't work - which I couldn't understand, because I had a
dedicated network connection between the 2! The servers each had 2
network cards, 1 on the private network (between the 2), and another on
the public network (which kept dropping & coming back up again).

My gut feel was that the interfaces on each server were affecting each
other. The support engineers disagreed with me.

We finally decided to load the latest patch release (being desperate),
and voila, it solved the problem! I can only guess that a TCP related
patch must have sorted out the problem. It wasn't Informix after all.


On these 2 servers we are running:

Solaris 9 (now with the latest patch release)
IDS7.31FD3






Dirk Moolman
Database and Unix Administrator
MXGROUP


"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of
thought which they seldom use."=20
-Kierkegaard=20

sending to informix-list

Could you please share with us the specific patch number?

thanks
esteban.-


"Dirk Moolman" <DirkM@mxgroup.co.za> wrote in message news:<cjuku7$nai$1@news.xmission.com>...
> Just a little bit of feedback (for those interested). A while back I
> posted a reply to an HDR mail, saying that we have loads of problems
> with HDR, and I was about to give up on using HDR. We kept loosing
> the link between the 2, and I kept rebuilding the secondary server.
>
> We tried crossover cables & dedicated switches to stabalise the network,
> but this didn't work - which I couldn't understand, because I had a
> dedicated network connection between the 2! The servers each had 2
> network cards, 1 on the private network (between the 2), and another on
> the public network (which kept dropping & coming back up again).
>
> My gut feel was that the interfaces on each server were affecting each
> other. The support engineers disagreed with me.
>
> We finally decided to load the latest patch release (being desperate),
> and voila, it solved the problem! I can only guess that a TCP related
> patch must have sorted out the problem. It wasn't Informix after all.
>
>
> On these 2 servers we are running:
>
> Solaris 9 (now with the latest patch release)
> IDS7.31FD3
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Dirk Moolman
> Database and Unix Administrator
> MXGROUP
>
>
> "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of
> thought which they seldom use."=20
> -Kierkegaard=20
>
> sending to informix-list

Dirk Moolman wrote:

> We finally decided to load the latest patch release (being desperate),
> and voila, it solved the problem! I can only guess that a TCP related
> patch must have sorted out the problem. It wasn't Informix after all.

If HDR wasn't good IBM wouldn't be working on putting it in DB2

Regards,

Fernando Nunes