Re: sqlnet over Internet

The method your are talking about is called Bequeathed connection method. There is also another method call Re-direct connection (Mult-Thread Server use this)

What happens is that the dispatchers (server spawned processes) register itself with the listener, telling the listener that it will be 'serving' a port no.(which is random) and a protocol (like TCP).

When a connection is made from the client side, the listener uses port#
(like the default 1521 or 1526). The listener talks with client for a while
(checking password etc...) and RE-DIRECT the client to talk with the
dispatcher (which is using some other port#). Now the client talks with the dispatcher only on another port# and frees the listener. Received on Wed Oct 08 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT