The transport address attribute is used by ct_connect to establish a connection to the server. The transport address attribute may have multiple transport address values.
Client-Library applications view the transport address value as a CS_TRANADDR structure. For details on the format of the structure, see “Transport address values”.
The server may allow connecting over multiple network transport types. Your network installation and the Sybase network driver configuration determines which transport types are used by Client-Library on your system. See the Open Client and Open Server Configuration Guide for more information.
The server entry may contain multiple address values for use with your network configuration. In this case, ct_connect tries to connect to each eligible address in turn, repeating if necessary, until one of the following conditions are satisfied:
A connection dialog is accepted at a given address.
Each address has been tried retry_count times, where retry_count is the value of the CS_RETRY_COUNT connection property.
The CS_LOOP_DELAY connection property sets a time in seconds for Client-Library to wait before beginning the sequence again. Client-Library does not wait between trying individual addresses in the sequence.
See “Retry count” and “Loop delay” for a description of the CS_RETRY_COUNT and CS_LOOP_DELAY properties.
