Re: Will access an sqlnet with ip_masq

["Mike Beachy" <beachy@marketboy.com>]

I've seen portforwarding working for an Oracle db. No module is necessary.

Are you sure that you have the router/fw configured to allow outbound
communication (i.e. from the Oracle box to the sqlplus client)?

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marco Alink" <marco@mokje.org>
To: <debian-firewall@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 3:04 AM
Subject: Will access an sqlnet with ip_masq


> Hi,
>
> I had a problem to access an Oracle database behind a debian router.
> I've got portforward on eg. 1521 to an net8 listener behind my router.
>
> In my portforwarding i had configured that port 1521 go to a server behind
> my router 192.168.1.x
> when i do a tnsping from the internet to that database it returned as ok.
>
> When i try to connect with sqlplus to that database it won't talk to that
> server.
> It can't talk back ;).
>
> Config:
>                      ___
> Internet ----->|   | Debian router
>                       |   |------------------>192.168.1.1
192.168.1.x
> (listener on 1521)
>                      ----
>
> is there an ip_masq_sqlnet module like ftp or must i do something else.
> p.s. the router contains a dns server for the local pc's
>
> greetz, Marco
> Marco@mokje.org
>
>
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