Re: Question: traversing a firewall with Oracle 9i R2.

Sybrand Bakker <gooiditweg_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote in message news:<60uo60p912uo4hukhe3r005k4j1pg6p8kq_at_4ax.com>...
> On 1 Apr 2004 09:13:16 -0800, drak0nian_at_yahoo.com (Paul Drake) wrote:
>
> > Depending upon the number of
> >connections you intend to support in this manner, you may want to
> >balance the load across multiple dispatchers and shared servers.
> >you will need to define explicity the ports for the dispatchers in the
> >init.ora file.
>
>
> Paul, a dispatcher can handle about 30 sessions. So if you expect to
> have 500+ sessions, be prepared to be slaughtered by your firewall
> department.
> As far as I am concerned, this approach is in my situation extreemly
> inflexible (because I have to submit a change request for every port
> to be opened), so I ditched it in favor of using CMAN.

Sybrand,

thanks for the info.
in this case, we used 2 dispatchers, might have had 5 simutaneous connections through that vpn connection, used only for remote support.

Paul Received on Fri Apr 02 2004 - 19:21:40 CST