Thanks Howard. The server has all the ports open for this particular
clinet. Also we had oracle 8.1.7 in solaris in the same enviroenment and
the connectivity was not a problem.
SP
"Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
news:O9pea.4386$dE2.10088_at_newsfeeds.bigpond.com...
> The firewall is probably your problem. Whilst you may open port 1521 on
it,
> that only gets you as far as the Listener. The Listener than spawns a
server
> process to run on any random port number, and it is to that server process
> you then have to connect to make a connection to the instance.
>
> Likely, your firewall is blocking those random ports on which the server
> processes can be contacted.
>
> You'll need to investigate CMAN (connection manager) if you want to use
> Oracle Net Services to drill through the firewall. Or you'll need to
invest
> some dosh in a firewall which is Oracle-aware.
>
> Regards
> HJR
>
>
Received on Thu Mar 20 2003 - 15:52:05 CST
