Message-Id: <10623.117306@fatcity.com>
From: "Penny Keefe" <Penny.Keefe@auc.trw.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 18:51:19 -0600
Subject: Failover with Oracle8 Parallel server

Anyone have any experience with Oracle8 Parallel server?  We are having
difficultly failing over when the network connection is pulled from the
server (similulating a network card or connection failure).  To be more
specific--  We have a program that uses OCI to connect to the database.
When we pull the network connection it takes 3 minutes before sqlnet
sends an error message.  I was wondering if there is anyway to shorten
the response time to a minute or less.  The verison of Oracle is 8.0.5
and we use local hostnaming (tnsnames) to connect to the server.

I have had many suggestions from people in the field that say to edit
the listener.ora file. Since the client never makes a connection to the
server, I don't think this is the right file to edit.

Any help is greatly appreciated.