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If you go with opening up the VPN access lists this is just a fyi and
a suggestion if you feel comfortable teaming up with your systems admin or
network admin
is to use the UNIX command snoop
to listen to the session and see what port the request goes out on and what
it comes back in on.
It can show you the stages in the connection and at what point it may or
may not be failing.
I'd love to hear your solution because I know with each version of sqlnet the networking functionality changes and aspects of how it works changes.
When I dealt with a proxy firewall (circa 1996-7) we had to realize that sqlnet works in a way like ftp protocol. The request goes out on one port number 1521 for sqlnet and port number 21 for ftp but it comes back on a port number higher than 30000
Best of luck and skill.
Heidi
"Peter J. Schoenster" To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <webmaster_at_re <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> de.com> cc: Sent by: Subject: Re: select from remote to root_at_fatcity. update/replace local database com 08/08/00 03:08 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L
On 8 Aug 2000, at 10:47, Charlie Mengler wrote:
> I'm confused.
> Is VPN s/w required to access the "remote" system?
> If yes, then without it NO access is available; not SQL*Net & not
> FTP. If no, then any protocol should work. If your system resides
> at a fixed IP#, then the remote firewall can be configured to all
> access between the two sites using any mutually agreed upon
> protocol.
Yes, seems (hate that word) that no VPN software is available for our server (solaris).
And thanks to Joanne Graham <joanneg_at_grenville.co.uk> for a clearer picture of the snapshot.
I used an Oracle expert to install Oracle on our Solaris box. I'm the guy who is developing the web/db/ connection via Perl scripts and all this is working fine ... no one seems to know about how we will connect to the remote oracle database and the need for VPN was mentioned only after we received username/password, sid and port to connect to the remote oracle and then determined that gee .. we couldn't get in. Oh well. Oddly enough it has now fallen to ME to determine the best way for us to get the data from the remote database. I have passed that question to the guy how very capably and efficiently installed Oracle 8.1.5 (and with the perl modules) on the solaris server (that in my estimation was never properly installed).
Here were my scenarios (from a guy who is still reading chapter 3):
If anyone ever wants to know the end of this saga let me know and when I get there (or fall off the mountain) I'll let you know :)
Peter