Connecting to DB from behind a firewall.

Dear list !
It's an Oracle 8.0.5 on Win NT question: We want to put our database server behind a firewall. The problem is the clients that need to connect to our DB from the "outer world".
Now , i know that the Oracle listener can choose any port when passing the connection to the Oracle server.
That means , that theoretically all the ports should be open on the firewall in order to allow client connections.
Sounds illogical.
So, is there a way to limit the ports range used by the listener when passing the connections to the Oracle server ? I do not want to use "connection manager" etc..

thanks a lot !

DBAndrey

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