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- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!rutgers!rwja!holowczk
- From: holowczk@rwja.umdnj.edu (Richard Holowczak)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle
- Subject: SQL*Net using multiple protocols
- Summary: SQL*Net using multiple protocols
- Keywords: Novell SQL*Net ORacle
- Message-ID: <1569@rwja.umdnj.edu>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 16:49:18 GMT
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway NJ
- Lines: 48
-
- Hello once again fello Oracle people. I have some juicy questions
- about SQL*Net for the project I'm working on. Here's the scoop:
-
- We are thinking of setting up a Novell Netware LAN and running
- Oracle Server for Netware. For PCs on the LAN, we would use the IPX/SPX
- version of SQL*Net. So far this is nothing earth shattering. We
- also intend on connecting this LAN up to the university network which
- is based on TCP/IP. The network people tell me there should be no
- problems if we would like to access the Oracle database from a remote
- site by going accross the Internet. For PCs this is not a problem.
-
- We have several users with Sun workstations who would also like to
- have access to the Oracle database on the Novell server. We also
- have some people who would like to dial in from home and have
- access to the database.
-
- What are our options in terms of using SQL*Net
- to do these tasks?
-
- What would performace be like?
-
- Users would like
- to be able to run SQL*Forms, SQL*Plus and SQL*Menus. Is anyone out
- there using SQL*Net Asynchronus?
-
- Will the new version of SQL*Net (is it 2.0?) be better for this kind
- of thing?
-
- I have been told about a process called IP tunneling which places the
- SPX (Novell) packets inside of IP packets for transmission across the
- internet. Unfortunately, this scheme is very hard to debug and it is
- not supported by the networking staff at this time. This would
- not be an option.
-
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-
- Originally we were going to go with a Microvax II running Oracle which
- would have made this very easy since anyone with Telnet or dial-up
- access can use the Oracle tools with nothing more than a terminal
- emulator package. This level of simplicity and performace is
- what we are looking to duplicate in the LAN setting.
-
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-
- Many thanks,
-
- Rich Holowczak
- Rutgers University
-