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Network Protocol Drivers/Authentication Enhancements in Ingres 9.3.x & 10.x

Posted 2012-04-03 at 08:29 AM by teresa

Tags driver, iigcc, iigcd, ingres, pam, protocol, tcp_ip, wintcp

Ingres 9.3 introduced a new port address calculation scheme that utilizes some of the unused bits in the 16-bit port value used in Ingres 9.2 and earlier. This increases the allowed number of Ingres Net Servers (IIGCC) and the Data Access Servers (IIGCD) using the TCP/IP protocol to a combination of 16 servers. The algorithm is structured so that:

Net-enabled servers (IIGCC and IIGCD) can potentially have a startup count of 0–16.
Subports within the range 8–15 map to a different range

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Obsolete Ingres Network Protocols to be removed in the next major Ingres release

Posted 2011-12-14 at 01:54 PM by teresa
Updated 2012-02-07 at 09:16 AM by teresa

Tags ingres net, network, network protocol driver, protocol, protocol driver

Over the past decade TCP/IP has become the industry standard protocol. To streamline our development and support processes, Actian Corporation will drop support for a number of obsolete network protocol drivers in the next major release of Ingres (post Ingres 10.1). These protocols are no longer used and in many cases have become unsupportable. A newer version of some of the drivers is now available. While these changes do not affect the current or any past release of Ingres, the announcement is...