January 27, 2004 at 5:57 am
I connect to one instance on port 12345 and I have a bunch of other instances i connect using the standard 1433. when i open the client network utility and put in 1433,12345 and click apply and close and then reopen it is gone.
am i not able to save multiple ports here, like i can in the server network utility?
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January 27, 2004 at 10:13 pm
Hi cm,
What you want to do is create aliases on the alias tab of the Client Network Utility. For example, if the instance at port 12345 is running on a server you called STARBOARD, then define an alias named STARBOARD (actually, you can give the alias any name you want) and make that alias point to the STARBOARD server on TCP/IP at port 12345.
The reason you can't put two ports in under the TCP/IP properties on the General tab is because that is for a default port - the one port that should be used on TCP/IP if TCP/IP is the default protocol for that client and no other connection information is given. While I could imagine a world where you could put in two ports, as you suggest, it would probably be a not-so-great idea, since your client would probably wind up waiting for port 1433 to time out before trying port 12345. You really wouldn't want to wait that long. And you couldn't try them simultaneously (at least, not without also specifying an instance name, which the Client Network Utility doesn't allow) because the same server could have instances listening on both ports.
Hope this helps,
Chris
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