ASA Database Administration Guide
  Client/Server Communications
    Using the TCP/IP protocol

Connecting on a dial-up network connection

You can use connection and communications parameters to assist with connecting to a database across a dial-up link.

On the client side, you should specify the following communications parameters:

• Host parameter    You should specify the host name or IP address of the database server using the Host (IP) communication parameter.

  For more information, see Host communication parameter [IP].

• DoBroadcast parameter    If you specify the Host (IP) communication parameter, there is no need to do a broadcast search for the database server. For this reason, use direct broadcasting.

  For more information, see DoBroadcast communication parameter [DOBROAD].

• MyIP parameter    You should set MyIP=NONE on the client side.

  For more information, see MyIP communication parameter [ME].

• TIMEOUT parameter    Set the TIMEOUT (TO) communication parameter to increase the time the client will wait while searching for a server.

For more information, see the Timeout communication parameter [TO].

A typical CommLinks (LINKS) connection parameter may look as follows:

Links=tcpip(MyIP=NONE;DoBroadcast=DIRECT;Host=server_ip)