From: Tim Taylor <ttaylor@us.oracle.com>
Subject: Re: SQL*Net through a Firewall
Date: 1998/02/02
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Andy,

Oracle created a SQL*Net application proxy and has licensed it to several
firewall vendors, including Checkpoint, Digital, and Trusted Information
Systems (TIS).  Check with one of these companies, or with your firewall
vendor. Oracle does not sell or support firewalls.

One of my customers has succesfully installed the Gauntlet firewall from
TIS. His firewall is on Solaris, his database is on HP/UX and he has a mix
of 95 and NT clients. I'm not personally recommending TIS, just saying that
I know it works.

Tim
Sales Consultant
Oracle Government, Education, and Health
Bethesda, MD

Sys Admin wrote:

> 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