Additional information on automatic rerouting of databases

Automatic rerouting of databases is a feature introduced in InterBase 7.5. It is a feature which is of interest to customers implementing multinstance installations of InterBase. It is documented in the InterBase Operations Guide manual. Here is some additional information you will probably need to get the feature to work.

The operations guide manual indicates an entry needs to me made in the InterBase ibconfig file to enable automatic rerouting of databases. This is incorrect. No entry is required.

Paths to databases in the db_route table must be in UPPERCASE.

Paths to databases in the db_route must use slash (/), not back slash ().

Only connections make via TCP/IP are rerouted. Connections made via IPC (local) or NetBui will not be rerouted at this time.

Databases may only be rerouted one time. Attempting to reroute more than once results in the error "Connect to host blah failed"