RE: VPN to database?

No problem here, except that it's slower if your expecting a ton of data.

Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA

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Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 11:45 AM
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I can tell you right now, i'm VPN'd to a client overseas and have NOT been able to get OCI to work over the protocol. I can telnet/ssh to the machine where the Oracle server runs (its Solaris) and work via a sql*plus window, but nothing runs locally (i.e., Toad or windows version of sql*plus connected to the remote server).

If there's some secret to making OCI work over VPN, we were not able to find it.

boss

>
> We are an Application Service Provider--we maintain a set of servers in
> a colocation facility and our customers use our application via the
> Web. Security is a paramount concern, of course, and only our Web
> server has a public IP address, with the application and database
> servers completely private.
>
> We supply a number of standard reports, but most of our customers want
> some custom reports as well. We would like to give them access to our
> database, possibly over a VPN, but only if security can be maintained.
> I'd like to know if anyone has faced such a situation, and what kind of
> configuration (network/firewall/VPN/Oracle Net) might make such access
> possible.
>
> TIA,
>
>
>
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