Re: Oracle 9i Shared Server across a firewall - help please !

Neil,

What type of firewall are you using? Some of them take account of Oracle's fondness for random port numbers. I think the technique is called stateful inspection or something similar. I use a Checkpoint firewall which comes with a special sqlnet protocol predefined to get around the port number problem. I'm sure there is a paper about this somewhere on the Oracle web site.

Regards,

Richard

"Neil Cudd" <neil_at_cudd.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:190d457f.0305080659.66a48dc8_at_posting.google.com...
> Database Server - Win 2000 Oracle 9.2.0.1
>
> Client - Win 2000 Oracle Client 9.2.0.1
>
> Between the database server and the client lies a firewall (the client
> is web facing) and because we are using Microsoft Transaction Server,
> we must use Oracle Shared Server (formerly MTS).
>
> The problem is how to limit the ports on which Oracle will
> communicate, so we can close down the firewall to these specific
> ports. Prior to 8i, it would be by specifying the port numbers for the
> dispatchers.Since 8i this is not possible.
>
> Am I correct in thinking that CMAN (Communication Manager) will enable
> me to do this ?
>
> Any examples would be very helpfull.
>
> Many thanks,
> Neil Cudd.
Received on Fri May 09 2003 - 17:56:50 CDT