Hello,
We've recently acquired a company which is accessing an Oracle database on a
remote network via TCP/IP. Due to addressing conflicts, we have installed
back-to-back PIX boxes to do two-way address translation between both
networks.
Unfortunately, we've discovered that Oracle's SQL/Net product passes IP
addresses back and forth during the handshaking phase of their ODBC drivers.
This makes it impossible to successfully do address translation, since the
addresses which are being passed are the native addresses, rather than the
translated addresses.
I spoke to Oracle about this to try to find out if it were possible to
convince
SQL/Net to pass hostnames rather than IP addresses and got some bonehead that
said that SQL/Net has nothing to do with the data in the packet... TCP/IP is
putting strings like "HOST=123.111.232.12" into the packet. Yeah, right.
In any case, is there some sort of proxy agent which will handle Oracle's
SQL/Net / ODBC stuff in a graceful fashion between two conflicting IP networks
somewhat like the Web proxy agent?
Brett Wyer
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