Re: Forcing the client to use a non-primay network card (NIC)

This is what I thought as well.

Thanks for your time.

"Eberhard Niendorf" <eberhard.niendorf_at_epost.de> wrote in message news:cioqre$9ul$05$1_at_news.t-online.com...
| Snewber <s_z_at_zz.com> wrote:
|
| > I was wondering if it is possible to force the oracle client to use a
| > second non-primary interface or network card? For example, the client
| > machine has two NICs and we want the client to use the secondary one or
| > the non-primary interface.
| >
| > The client (9.2.0.5) is installed on a box running
| >
| > Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 3)
| >
|
| There are no oracle parameter to adjust the outbound TCP/IP-address or
NIC.
| But there are some possibilities to use a secondary NIC, but these are not
| oracle specific, these are valid on the whole machine. The possibilities
| you have are dependent on your network topology between client/server. At
| first, you must have separate TCP/IP addresses for the NICs on the client.
| And now there are some alternatives, define a special static route or use
| TCP/IP addresses from a separate segment or ... Now the Unix-admin must
do
| his job.
|
| Eberhard Niendorf
Received on Tue Sep 21 2004 - 18:57:11 CDT