Re: Connecting IIS to Oracle through a Firewall

In Oracle 8i, you can set use_shared_sockets = true in sqlnet.ora in %ORACLE_HOME%\network\admin.
In that case the port will be used for two way communications. If that for some reason doesn't work, you can configure a file called protocol.ora in the same directory and use tcp.invited_ports= and tcp.excluded_ports=
Please don't post this kind of question to *all* Oracle newsgroups. This is a typical .server topic.

Hth,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

"Ryan" <stuffedlobster_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Tpmo5.21995$xg1.200746_at_news1.rdc1.sdca.home.com...
> Does anyone know of a way to lock down the TCP/IP ports that Oracle
> communicates over. We have an IIS Server that is outside our firewall and
> an Oracle 8i Server inside the firewall. We established an ODBC
 connection
> using Oracles's ODBC driver between the two IP's. We, also opened up
 ports
> 1521 and 1526 to negotiate over. However, once it negotiates, it appears
 to
> want to pass data over a random port. Is there a way to identify what
 ports
> it can and cannot use?
>
> thanks,
> ryan
>
>
Received on Tue Aug 22 2000 - 00:49:50 CDT