# Rails Connection Pool With Firewall

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-connection-pool-with-firewall/171735>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 8, 2009, 1:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-connection-pool-with-firewall/171735 "2009-07-08T13:34:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 1:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-connection-pool-with-firewall/171735/1 "2009-07-08T13:34:30Z")

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Does anyone know how to properly configure rails connection pool to  
behave through a firewall? We are seeing a lot of timeout errors with  
activerecord (webapp has firewall between it and the firewall) and not  
sure how to enable connection pool settings similar to DBCP with  
tomcat.

Thanks  
AD