Re: Westell Wirespeed B90-220030-04 and Oracle Services

Typically, the reply to the login comes across on a higher uncommon port. If you are using MTS, you can designate which ports you want used in the init.ora file. If not, you may want to open outgoing traffic on the higher, uncommon ports.

Hope this helps...

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"Vern" <pbfvern_at_bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:6q5qc.22641$GV5.13164_at_bignews4.bellsouth.net...
> Hello All,
>
> I have the above DSL modem on my network along with a variety of machines
> and several different operating systems. One of the operating systems I
have
> is Novell 5.1 and on that server I am using the five user versions of
Oracle
> that ships with Novell. The Oracle version I am using is 8i. The server
> bundle works great and I do all of my business on this platform.
>
> I also have DSL, Novell (v5.0 and Oracle 8), running at home where I have
> several databases that I rely upon heavily and it works great as well. My
> dilemma is that I want to be able to access my work Oracle instance from
> home. Incidentally, I have the identical Westell at home as I do at work.
>
> I have opened up ports 1521-1526 with a base port of 1521 on the Westell
at
> work, (both udp and tcp), and managed to get a login prompt from sqlplus
but
> I'm never able to get logged in. It seems that Oracle is using a different
> port each time I try to connect for communications. I could open up all
> ports on my Westell but you know what that will do to my security.
>
> Does anyone know what I need to do to have the ability to control this? Is
> there special software I need to install to install on my Westell or is
> there a way to instruct Oracle to use specific ports?
>
> Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to provide,
>
> Vern
>
>
>
>
Received on Fri May 21 2004 - 19:03:01 CEST