Re: net8 and twisted pair

Well, it can be even stranger. I freshly installed windows NT4.0 ona computer with network card and cables attached. Installation was succesfull and netowrk available. Installing the Oracle tools (Designer etc) went OK, eexcept for net8. Not even the configuration of net8 would start!

Anyhow,why would net8 bother about how the physical connection is made? Why then are the different network protocol layers developep (physical layer, TCP/IP, .. ,net8) is configuration of the bottom layer directly influences to upper layers. What kind of mysterious links are present then? Btw on my Linux computer switching the cables alters the network cards setting,I had to disable plug and play again, but then everything went smooth again (as you would expect!).

PL/SQL dveloper is not an Oracle product but from allround automations and a very nice tool for developing PLSQL code. I do not now how it connects to the database, but it does use the tnsnames.ora files.

So, I may have asked for a broken network, but not for a disabled net8!

Raymond

Frank wrote in message <8qurm2$48q$1_at_porthos.nl.uu.net>...
>Strange...? you asked for it! It's called Plug-and-Pray. Solly fol the
>plonounciaon ;)
>Looks like some network settings were altered, either automaically, or
>by yourself. That may have broken the bindings.
>What puzzles me is the fact the PL/SQL developer can still connect.
>How is that established then - are you referring to the oracle product?
>--
>Frank
>Raymond van Daelen <daelen_at_wxs.nl> schreef in berichtnieuws
>39D2604E.3C163D20_at_wxs.nl...
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I've experienced a strange phenomenon. I recently switched from coax
>> cables for my network to twisted pair cables. Simply be removing the
>> coax and placing twisted pair cables in the proper slots.
>> From this moment on net8 was no longer available, and Designer,
>> discoverer etc. situated on my windows 98 machine (and also on a NT4
>> SP4 machine) could no longer connect to the database. I could not even
>> start the net8 assistant to reconfigure. And a new installation (of
>> designer and discoverer) on a NT4 machine simply didn't show net8
>> functionality! Even though according to oracle installer is is present.
>> Starting net8 through ../bin/N8a.exe did not work either (no respons
>> whatsoever!)
>> The databse (situated on a linux machine) can still be reached using
>> PL/SQL developer, so the network connection is functioning! and database
>> is up and running).
>>
>> Has anyone any idea what can be done to restore connectivity between the
>> machine using net8?
>>
>> many thanks
>>
>> Raymond
>
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Received on Thu Sep 28 2000 - 06:58:58 CDT