Path: news.easynews.com!easynews!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!nntp.abs.net!feeder.qis.net!btnet-peer!btnet!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!juno.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Richard Armstrong" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.misc,comp.databases.oracle.server,comp.databases.oracle.tools Subject: Re: Seeking opinions on firewalls Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 03:29:49 -0000 Message-ID: <1015126190.27874.0.nnrp-07.9e9809ca@news.demon.co.uk> References: <1014773985.13165.0.nnrp-13.9e9809ca@news.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: "Richard Armstrong" NNTP-Posting-Host: juno.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: juno.demon.co.uk:158.152.9.202 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1015126190 nnrp-07:27874 NO-IDENT juno.demon.co.uk:158.152.9.202 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Lines: 22 Xref: easynews comp.databases.oracle.misc:77557 comp.databases.oracle.server:137287 comp.databases.oracle.tools:49289 X-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 20:31:14 MST (news.easynews.com) Many thanks to all who responded. Your help is greatly appreciated. Richard "Richard Armstrong" wrote in message news:1014773985.13165.0.nnrp-13.9e9809ca@news.demon.co.uk... > Can anybody recommend a firewall that can be used with an Oracle database? > I understand that because of the way Oracle uses port redirection, it is > necessary for vendors to build Oracle supplied application proxy code into > their products. The alternative seems to be to open a large number of ports > for any clients that will need to use SQL*Net via the firewall. > > Any advice will be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Richard > >