At 5:05 PM +0200 7/16/99, BAUMEISTER Alexandre wrote:
>Bonjour Paul,
>
>PD> It wasn't clear to me from the original posting (or I've forgotten),
>PD> but:
>
>PD> - Are you changing the gateway after you've already established the MySQL
>PD> connection?
>
> Yes.
Isn't that kind of an odd thing to do?
>
>PD> - Under the circumstances you describe, does the UNIX ping command work?
>
> Yes.
Does it work if you run it in continuous mode, i.e., to keep sending packets
until you kill it?
> But mysql_ping() hangs and returns only if I get back to the
> previous gateway (the one which was used when the connection was
> established).
If you terminate the program and start it up again, does the new instance
connect to the server properly?
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Paul DuBois, paul@stripped
