From: Sys Admin <sysadmin@vdoj.vic.gov.au>
Subject: SQL*Net through a Firewall
Date: 1998/02/02
Message-ID: <34D55376.A5F@vdoj.vic.gov.au>#1/1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Organization: Customer of Access One Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia
Mime-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server



We have a requirement to replicate a database through a firewall. I am
assuming that if we can use DB_LINKS using SQL*Net through the firewall
then Replication will also work (?). 

However, when we tested a SQL*Net connection through a firewall our
comms guy said it spawned a lot of child processes which he was not
happy with (they seemed to be within a large range which he said would
be difficult to allow for).

Has anyone done this successfully? The only documentation I have is an
Oracle Whitepaper dated 1995 and Oracle Support said this is the latest
one, which is surprising.

Does anyone know of any decent up-to-date documentation on this? I
suspect it is quite a common request these days.

Thanks in Advance,

Andy Horne