Re: how does tns go over tcp/ip?

It goes over whatever protocol (tcp/ip, appletalk, spx, etc) as packets. I imagine if you capture the packets you could probably decode them. I don't believe Oracle publishes the structure of the packets, but things like a network sniffer (from Network Associates I think) know how to read them. (the unencrypted ones) You can turn on tracing and see the packets dumped to disk as the client (or server) talks to each other.

Usually the clients talk to the server on port 1521 if that helps. Jim

"sam" <samim106_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:2dddb3ab.0210281107.49625f1a_at_posting.google.com...
> i was trying to decode some of the oracle data and was wondering if
> anyone knew how tns can be detected? Like how does someone tell that
> this packet is tns data? I can't seem to find any specs about TNS
> [prolly cuz it's oracle's own creation...] but yeah...any comments
> would help!!
>
> thanks!
> sam
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