Re: Oracle traffic & the SP switch

On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 23:51:40 -0000, "John Skyner" <jskyner_at_jtc-computing.co.uk> wrote:

>Are there any Oracle_traffic_over_the_SP_switch gurus out there?
>
>I'm having a small problem and wonder if you may have the answer:
>
>I have a two node cluster: One is a database server and the other an
>application server.
>
>Most clients access the application via the application server, which
>doesn't cause a problem.
>
>However, there are a few clients who need to access the database directly,
>via SQLNet. Here's where I have the problem:
>
>I want to listen on the switch card which, as you know, is not accessible
>outside of the SP framework. If I configure the listener to listen on the
>internal ethernet, which is the same as listening on the switch, the
>database will accept connections from any incoming request, such as the
>public tokenring network or even the switch. If I listen on the switch,
>however, only connection requests made via the switch will be honoured.
>
>Why won't Oracle accept external requests, when listening on the switch,
>when it will accept external requests when listening on the internal
>ethernet?
>
>How do I get around this?
>
>Please Cc a copy of your reply posting directly via e-mail, for speed.
>
>Many thanks in advance,
>
>John
>
>
>
Must be a problem in your network configuration as sqlnet definitely hasn't that kind of functionality.
Inevitably one would have to have more details (sqlnet configuration files, ip addresses, gateway info) to help to resolve this problem.

Regards

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA Received on Fri Feb 23 2001 - 06:36:19 CET