Re: ORA-12571 error

From: Sybrand Bakker <gooiditweg_at_sybrandb.demon.nl>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 16:23:34 +0200
Message-ID: <6coukv89fdn60b7q1o1gjp0d3lb1p77a0i@4ax.com>

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 15:43:00 +0200, Alain Migeon <agm_at_dk.rovsing> wrote:

>Hi
>
>I have, on a Win2000 machine, an Oracle database, version 8.1.7. On the
>same machine, I have a server connecting to this database.
>
>I start my server which connect at start up to Oracle. Everything is
>working fine, and then if some network problems occur (I just unplug the
>network cable to reproduce the error), I got the ORA-12571 error
>(TNS:packet writer failure), followed by the ORA-03114 (not connected to
>ORACLE).
>
>Since my database and my server are on the same machine, why do I get
>this error?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Alain
>

Likely you are using the TCP/IP protocol. The communication will go over your network card, even if you connect to the local system. If you don't need java, or jdbc, for which use of the tcp/ip protocol is mandatory, switch to IPC or BEQ

Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

To reply remove -verwijderdit from my e-mail address Received on Fri Aug 29 2003 - 09:23:34 CDT