Hello Dan, Hello Everyone -
I can see that many people struggle with MSSQL connectivity, so I just thought I would mention an alternative approach that is *much* simpler to implement, which is to install an instance of Radiator on the MSSQL box. This Radiator instance would receive proxied radius requests from your main installation and simply do a local ODBC connection to the database. As a general rule, proxying radius requests is very much easier than trying to set up inter-platform SQL connectivity. This may not work for everyone, but keep it in mind. regards Hugh On Friday, September 6, 2002, at 03:19 AM, 'Dan Melomedman' wrote: > Patrick Muldoon(NOC) wrote: >> We use DBD::Sybase with FreeTDS to connect to MSSQL Server 2000 from >> FreeBSD, and it works great, have never had any trouble. >> >> What version of FreeTDS are you using? >> >> You can also do some debugging with FreeTDS to see if it is the one >> hanging. >> http://www.freetds.org/userguide/x1873.htm#AEN1877 >> >> Hope this helps, >> >> -Patrick > > I am happy for you. We are using MSSQL 7.0, with service pack 2. We also > use FreeTDS with PHP, and had some minor problems, but nothing major. > There are/were many really screwy problems with FreeTDS like memory > leaks > and segfaults, and part of the problem is the reverse engineering, but > it's a good suspect. > > We're always using the latest version of FreeTDS, and AFAIK it's been > 0.53 for quite a while. This server hang problem is very irritating, and > ambiguity of it really sucks. Where to look? DBD:Sybase? FreeTDS? MSSQL? > So many layers. > > Does anyone on this list use MSSQL with Sybase client libraries by any > chance? UnixODBC or iODBC with a commercial ODBC driver? What are your > results? I've used Sybase client libraries with MSSQL 6.5 in the past > with good results. Had more problems with 7.0. BTW, FreeTDS have a > very early version of an ODBC driver. They're willing to finish it > if you sponsor them. If FreeTDS makes you a profit, may as well > support the developers :) > === > Archive at http://www.open.com.au/archives/radiator/ > Announcements on [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, email '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with > 'unsubscribe radiator' in the body of the message. > > -- Radiator: the most portable, flexible and configurable RADIUS server anywhere. Available on *NIX, *BSD, Windows 95/98/2000, NT, MacOS X. - Nets: internetwork inventory and management - graphical, extensible, flexible with hardware, software, platform and database independence. === Archive at http://www.open.com.au/archives/radiator/ Announcements on [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with 'unsubscribe radiator' in the body of the message.
