Re: IP Addresses and fail-over

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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 22:12:29 GMT
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In article <01be1156$24c67c80$1f09440c_at_coes-ma>, "Steve Foley" <steve.DELETEfoley_at_worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> We are installing Oracle 8.0.5 on a Windows NT cluster. We have the
> 'failover' component. My DBA says we need to assign a different IP address
> for each instance of the database. Is this correct? We have a class C
> network and will quickly run out of addresses this way.
>
>

Hi, Steve,

Your DBA is right. The primary instance needs an IP address and a failover instance needs another IP address. In Net8 configuration, there are HOST=p1, HOST=p2 ... with the same SID.

Xuening Sun

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