You can use the freetds libraries instead of the Sybase libraries. You can
find them at http://www.freetds.org and they are in source form so you
should have no problem using them on *BSD.
Kevin
-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, November 05, 2000 6:44 PM
Subject: RE: (RADIATOR) ODBC/Platypus/SQL 7 basics
>Thanks for the reply.
>[..]
>> > Radius server |Network| SQL Server
>> > -------------------------------------------------|-------|-------------
>> > Radiator -> DBI -> DBD:ODBC -> ODBC driver(iODB) ---------> SQL 7
Server
>> >
>[..]
>> You have almost got it - my reading of iODBC is that it still
>> needs an ODBC
>> driver underneath. Have a look at this URL:
>>
>> http://195.153.164.12/wwwboard/messages/176.html
>>
>> You can also do a search on Google (which is what I did -
www.google.com).
>>
>> Depending on what platform you are running on, you may find using
>> the DBD-Proxy
>> is a simpler way to go, or alternatively the Sybase client libraries and
>> DBD-Sybase.
>
>Ok, that makes sense. It looks like iODBC is out of the picture, since it
>uses binary drivers (the ones I saw are only for linux), and I'm using
>OpenBSD.
>
>The next choice is DBD:proxy, which I took a short look at. The picture is
>now this:
>
>Radius server |Network| SQL Server
>-----------------------------|-------|-------------------------------------
-
>----
>Radiator -> DBI -> DBD:Proxy --------> DBD:Proxy -> Windows ODBC -> SQL 7
>Server
>
>Right? If this is correct, is the DBD:Proxy daemon very intensive if I
chose
>to run it on the SQL server, or should it be an install and use forever
type
>of component?
>
>The last choice is the Sybase client client librarys. I thougt I could use
>DBD:Sybase without them, but soon figured out that I couldn't. Again, I'm
on
>OpenBSD, and I didn't see any source distributions for the Sybase librarys,
>so that looks out of the picture.
>
>Looks like I'll be trying to get DBD:Proxy going, regardless of whether
it's
>easy or not. =)
>
>Thanks for the time..
>
>--Doug
>
>
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