Re: Need Info .. Re.. Ver 7.0 's Multiprotocol Networking Software

In article <1992Oct13.192408.12652_at_tamsun.tamu.edu> nakkala_at_cs.tamu.edu (Venkatesh Nakkala) writes:
]

[...talking about Multi-Protocol networking...]
]
] Now, suppose we have ORACLE on the DG that uses some protocol(the one used by
] DG's to communicate with one another..I think it's called CEO Connect
] -- for sure it does not support TCP/IP)
] and ORACLE on the SUN which would normally use TCP/IP.

    Point of clarification: CEO Connect isn't a networking protocol, but a CEO-to-CEO connection that runs *on top* of a network. Oracle supports several protocols on DG's MV, including Xodiac (X.25), TCP/IP, and LU 6.2.

] Is it possible for the application software on these two machines
] (either database to database or an application accessing a remote
] database) to communicate without the
] DG's having to go in for an ETHERNET card i.e. without TCP/IP.

    Well, you need *some* kind of networking hardware and software. As for connecting without TCP/IP, you already have some non-TCP/IP choices. If you currently have LU 6.2, for example, you can *currently* connect to a Sun running LU 6.2, using Oracle 6.0, etc. But you still need some connection path between the two machines, and that means having the DG card and software for that.

    What the Multiprotocol buys you is this: If you have an MV connected to an IBM via LU 6.2, and the IBM connected to a Sun via TCP/IP, SQL*Net will support a connection between, say, SQL*Form 4.0 running on the Sun on Motif connecting to an Oracle database on the MV.

• Bill K.

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