Re: oracle on an stand-alone pc

Daniel Morgan wrote:
> Windows Simple TCP/IP ... that's all.
>
> C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32>ipconfig
>
> Windows 2000 IP Configuration
>
> Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
>
> Connection-specification DNS Suffix ... : psoug.org
> IP Address .............................: 192.xxx.x.x
> Subnet Mask ............................: 255.255.255.0
> Default Gateway ........................: 192.xxx.x.x
>

So you DO have TCP/IP. And you have a physical adapter.

This thread-fibre started by you challenging my statement about loopback adapter. Your challenge: "Why? Of what value is the loopback? What is it going to teach someone they can't learn on a stand-alone?"

My answer to your challenge: Having the TCP/IP stack enables OHS (powered by Apache), whch provides such capabilities as iSQLPLUS (and OEM). If there is no physical network adapter in the standalone PC, the loopback adapter ensures the TCP/IP stack is installed. Therefore, the value lies in learning OEM, iSQLPLUS and all other facilities related to OHS. Thus, I stand behind my statement "you should have at least the 'loopback' network subsystem in place". However that could have been made less ambiguous by writing "you should have the TCP/IP stack in place. That can be enabled using the loopback adapter if no physical adapter is available.".

Perhaps I don't need to hit the books quite as hard as was implied. /Hans Received on Fri Mar 12 2004 - 23:42:32 CST