Re: Porting SQL*Net to Xenix

In article <1992Jan21.135530.1_at_vxcrna.cern.ch>, roeber_at_vxcrna.cern.ch writes...
>We have an oracle system running (or soon to be running) on a variety
>of platforms, including vax/vms, apollo/domain, dec/ultrix, sun/os and
>hp/sux. Now I have to get it (or at least the sql*net portion) running
>on sco/xenix. This is complicated by the fact that our ip package for
>xenix is homebrew, and we can't use the asynch lines.
>
>Oracle seems to share my opinion of Xenix and our homebrew ip; however,
>I still have to deal with it.
>
>Does anybody have any hard data on the sql*net protocol? I can sit
>down with a network analyzer, but I'd rather not. I plan on using our
>rpc package as the transport, but am not committed. I'd be grateful
>for any information anybody has relating to this.
>
>My sql*net manual says, "The SQL*Net software is designed to be
>easily ported to a variety of hosts" and "Oracle Corp. also plans to
>support customers who want to develop custom protocols that will work
>with SQL*Net."
>
>Can anybody point me in the right direction on how to follow up on
>these statements? The oracle support people in our own computer
>division (CERN staff, not Oracle staff) are of no use: their solution
>to any problem is to advise we dump whatever hardware we are using
>and buy Suns instead.

The actual SQL*NET protocol is proprietary. SQL*NET wants a TCP/IP kernel that it can interface with at the TCP layer, this is not necessarily a trivial prospect. At one point in order to install SQL*NET on SCO's TCP/IP you had to have both the development system and the TCP/IP development system so you could recompile SQL*NET to include some SCO library. I know Oracle was trying to make a licencing arrangement with SCO so they could distribute SQL*NET with SCO's libraries already linked in don't know if they were successful.

You want to talk whoever manages OEM relationships at your local Oracle office and have them find out what's involved in getting a porting kit from the Network Products Division in California. If you're unsuccesful at that drop me a line and I'll suggest a couple people in the NPD you can e-mail to, they would (quite rightly) have my head if I posted their names here.

Norm

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