Re: How does the Transparent Network Substrate

Hi Jim,

Rather than having multiple development streams, one for each network protocol supported, for each product, Oracle created the TNS layer that all the products (Server/Dev2000/Des2000/Pro's) and then leave it upto the SQL*Net development team to package this onto your required network layer. Remember that there is more to networking than TCP/IP.

As far as your performance query is concerned, we wanted to deploy the Oracle Forms onto a network server and have the users mount the network drive onto the local PC. We started of with both the Dev/2000 runtime and the Forms installed on the server, and ended up with moving both Dev/2000 and Forms onto the Local PC. This obviously causes a lot more headaches for the people responsible for the deployment of new software, 100's of PC's instead of 10's of PC's, but like yourself we had totally unacceptable performance with a central design. BTW - We were NT 4.0 Server SP3 for the Server, and NT 4.0 WorkStation SP3 for the Clients running on TCP/IP 10Mbit.

Rgds
Andrew

Jim Thompson wrote:

> How does the Transparent Network Substrate (TNS) work? Does it do
> packet encapsulation instead of a machines native TCP/IP layers?
>
> Help me on this one. We're trying figure out why putting SQL Forms on
> local servers cause long delays for Oracle 8 (using Developer 2000) Mac
> clients. We'd like to run the forms from the servers. There is no
> problem for the PC's using this format.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jim
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