Re: s...port's - problem

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:50:09 GMT, Fabrizio <fabrizio.magni_at_mycontinent.com> wrote:

>Daniel wrote:
>> Here's an overview of how connectivity works. First, I'll assume you
>> connect with a dedicated connection (as opposed to a "shared server"):
>> the listener gets the incoming requests, usually on port 1521, unless
>> you changed the default port used. After the requests came to the
>> listener, the listener spawns a new server dedicated process, and has
>> this server dedicated process "listen" on a different port of the
>> server. The listener then tells the incoming connection request which
>> port it should look at to be in touch with this newly-spawned dedicated
>> server process. You therefore also need access to this other port.
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>
>Hi Daniel,
>the port redirection is true only on windows and it can be avoided
>setting use_shared_socket=true in the windows regedit.

With as result that as soon as you stop the listener, everyone is disconnected.

>
>Unix maintains the communication on the listening port so you can keep
>only one port open in your firewall.
>

Are you sure of that? As far as I know there is no difference between Unix and Winblows

>Regards

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