Path: text.usenetserver.com!out02b.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!in04.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!post01.iad01!not-for-mail Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:37:38 -0700 From: DA Morgan Organization: Puget Sound Oracle Users Group User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Oracle RAC VIP networking question References: <1186408345.211768.35850@l70g2000hse.googlegroups.com> <1186410573.880709.192990@r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com> <1186415193.661033.170280@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> <1186425590.953091@bubbleator.drizzle.com> <1186492860.180927.147790@19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com> <1186494576.528904.98980@o61g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> <1186495478.259548.221240@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com> <1186534235.681038.182370@e9g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <1186545082.964877.195900@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1186545082.964877.195900@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1186598256.619582@bubbleator.drizzle.com> Cache-Post-Path: bubbleator.drizzle.com!unknown@216.162.218.178 X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Lines: 27 X-Complaints-To: abuse@csolutions.net Xref: usenetserver.com comp.databases.oracle.server:432663 X-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:37:36 EDT (text.usenetserver.com) keithdew@comcast.net wrote: > I understand a little better now. We have given up on the isolated > batch failover piece. So from a VIP perspective for Oracle 10gR2, > our public facing RAC VIP's (per node) are what the clients have > configured in their conncetion list and are used accordingly depending > on the state of the cluster. I thought that I just read that during a > failover, the failed VIP moves to another node and just simply informs > clients that it is no longer receiving connections when they try to > connect that VIP (IP address). I'm assuming this then instructs the > client to use the next connection name in the list on another node. > > I'm still not real familar on the concept of the "application" VIP. > According to what Cristian stated earlier (cluster vip) it appears to > be for application servers (and not client) in the Oracle environment? > > Thanks > Keith Go to www.psoug.org click on Links Follow the High Availability links -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond) Puget Sound Oracle Users Group www.psoug.org