Re: Secure SQL*Net

From: Kyler Laird <laird_at_asphodel.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 1997/12/10
Message-ID: <66md0h$e6b@mozo.cc.purdue.edu>#1/1

cjc_at_interport.net (Cheng-Jih Chen) writes:

> ssh -L 1521:<db_server>:1521 -l oracle <db_server>

I do essentially this. I don't do it for the encryption, though. It was just a handy way to "move" the Oracle server to an HTTP server that serves an app that uses JDBC.
>One major question would be performance. I'm not sure what kind of
>performance you'd get out of ssh tunnelling.

I suspect that over "slow" links with "fast" computers, you'll be able to get better performance with ssh thanks to the compression.

--kyler Received on Wed Dec 10 1997 - 00:00:00 CST