Re: connecting over internet

From: Christopher M. Day <christopher.day_at_rdbms.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 22:53:02 +0100
Message-ID: <373B49BE.A6FBDEAE@rdbms.freeserve.co.uk>

Pablo,

With winNT, Net8 includes a registry setting that forces the use of a shared_socket address.(USE_SHARED_SOCKET=TRUE).Might be worth checking for this within the UNIX Net8 docs.

Chris.

Pablo Marquez wrote:
>
> Hi all:
>
> I want to allow access to my Oracle 8 server installed on an AIX System
> (via SQL Plus or
> TOAD trough RDBMS) via internet.
> The problem is that there is a firewall installed in order to limit the
> access to the server. So i allow access for an exact IP address and for port
> 1521
> In the Oracle Net 8 Easy Config says that the client connects to the port
> 1521.
> When i work in LAN that's correct, but when I try to connect from 'outside'
> oracle tries to open other ports dinamically (i think in other to improve
> the bandwidth) so Oracle can't stablish the connection
> My question is if there's any parameter or way to say Oracle that it must
> open just one port or some well-known ports when connecting from internet so
> we
> can configure the firewall correctly
>
> thanks a lot
Received on Thu May 13 1999 - 16:53:02 CDT