Re: how does tns go over tcp/ip?

From: sam <samim106_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 29 Oct 2002 11:07:21 -0800
Message-ID: <2dddb3ab.0210291107.759bfe0b_at_posting.google.com>

hmmm....
yeah....i guess it'd be smart not to post their specs for the world to
see...

thanx for the info jim...i don't think i have the cash to purchase sniffer but i guess i'll try the tracing functionality and give that a try...
thanx!
sam

"Jim Kennedy" <kennedy-family_at_attbi.com> wrote in message news:<E4mv9.140638$md1.28148_at_sccrnsc03>...
> 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
>
>
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