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Re: changing NIC on Oracle server, any problem?

From: Steve Phelan <stevep_at_toneline.n-o-s-p-a-m.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 21:17:16 +0100
Message-ID: <372A0FCC.1E7AE9B6@toneline.n-o-s-p-a-m.demon.co.uk>


I've done this on a few Ethernet and Token Ring systems and never had problems. As long as the card works OK and you haven't changed IP addresses, etc. Oracle will be OK (as it doesn't go any lower down than the transport - i.e., TCP/IP, for instance).

Steve Phelan.

Marcus Soares wrote:

> A friend of mine told me that when he changed the NIC (an old 10Mb NE2000 compatible) of his Oracle server to a 3COM 100Mb (tested
> and approved on another machine), Oracle stopped working. Neither IP nor hostname were changed, just the NIC. He changed back to
> the old NIC and Oracle started working again.
> I thought that to be very strange, but now I have to do the same on my server and I am afraid of cracking my system. Did it happen
> to anyone here? Any clues why that happened to my friend? It it possible to happer at all?
>
> Thanks,
> Marcus Soares
Received on Fri Apr 30 1999 - 15:17:16 CDT

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