Thank you, Tony. That makes a lot of sense from a Unix standpoint.
Tony Dare <tonydare_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<oItDc.7$X01.476_at_news.oracle.com>...
> Traffic outbound from the database goes out the same socket the
> connection was established on and so goes out the same interface/address
> the socket was created on (or so I've read - testing it would say for
> sure). The listener only does *port* redirection - when on the same
> server as the database. It accomplishes this by directly handing off
> its socket "handle" to the server process it spawns. The game changes
> under RAC, when you're using a remote listener (in the case of
> server-side load balancing). The listener in this case sends a
> "redirect" packet to the client, which then disconnects and reconnects
> to the address and port specified in the packet.
Received on Wed Jun 30 2004 - 10:57:05 CDT
