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will that be a performance bottleneck?
If I have 8.0.5 clients will it work?
We no longer use 7.3.4, excpet for libclntsh.so to compile our middletier, but that's going away as well.
Thanx.
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000 17:13:19 +0100, "Sybrand Bakker" <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote:
>In Oracle 8i you can add
>use_shared_sockets = true
>
>to sqlnet.ora and Oracle will use that *one* port only.
>In 7.3.4 that doesn't work, but then you are going to upgrade very soon,
>aren't you?
>
>Hth,
>
>Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA
>
>"NetComrade" <andreyNSPAM_at_bookexchange.net> wrote in message
>news:39fee84a.57212877_at_news.earthlink.net...
>> My company is trying to increase security, and they think that they
>> should close down some ports.
>>
>> Now, I know that besides using the 1520, 1521 or whatever other ports
>> you use for the listener, Oracle also assigns random Port numbers for
>> connections (at least in MTS mode)... But is there are a range of port
>> numbers Oracle uses? Can we close down any ports?
>>
>> Is SQL*net firewall proxy the only way to go? Metalink has some docs,
>> but they seem to be a bit outdated (1995)
>>
>> Thanx.
>> ---------------
>> In case I forgot to mention:
>> We use Oracle 7.3.4 and 8.1.6 on Solaris 2.6, 2.7 boxes
>> ---------------
>> Andrey Dmitriev eFax: (978) 383-5892 Daytime: (917) 750-3630
>> AOL: NetComrade ICQ: 11340726 remove NSPAM to email
>>
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Andrey Dmitriev eFax: (978) 383-5892 Daytime: (917) 750-3630 AOL: NetComrade ICQ: 11340726 remove NSPAM to emailReceived on Tue Oct 31 2000 - 11:51:14 CST
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