Re: Listener question

On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:48:19 +0000, Billy Verreynne <vslabs_at_onwe.co.za> wrote:

>Sybrand Bakker wrote:
>
>>
>>>Can you have a listener listening on more than one port on the same
>>>machine?
>>
>> Short answer: NO, you need multiple listeners. Billy Verreyne is
>> simply wrong.
>
>Of course you need mutilple listeners! Sheez Sybrand - I'm not that stupid.
>Yet. :-)
>
>However, you deal with a _single_ configuration - the listener.ora file. The
>fact that this creates multiple listener processes is a technical point
>that I think the original poster is not interested in. Just yet.
>
>So to answer the original poster's question.
>
>Yes. You can have a listener configuration that listens on multiple ports
>for the same database. Multiple databases on the same port. Or multiple
>databases on multiple ports.
>

Yes, this is the point that I wanted to clear up. Thanks

>Longer answer. Which is not what I intended to get into and which is why I
>said RTFM. Each listener configuration _entry_ in the listener.ora will
>spawn a separate process on Unix (which is btw not the exaclty case on NT
>so who is now more correct Sybrand? ;-).
Received on Tue Jun 10 2003 - 03:36:04 CDT