From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 20 13:36:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA01979 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Jul 1997 13:36:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scruz.net (nic.scruz.net [165.227.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA01974 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 1997 13:36:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [165.227.104.177] (kevind.pa.scruznet.com [165.227.104.177]) by scruz.net (8.8.5/1.34) with SMTP id NAA26306 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 1997 13:36:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 13:36:09 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: kevind@mail.scruznet.com Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: questions@freebsd.org From: kevin@dick.org (Kevin Dick) Subject: Accessing Oracle servers from FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I want to run a Web server on FreeBSD and have it access an Oracle server on Solaris. Some people at Oracle claim to support SQL*Net clients on FreeBSD. However, they can't tell me whether there are native binaries or the support is through some sort of SCO or Solaris emulation. Others at Oracle aren't sure if it's possible at all. I can only think of five solutions to my problem: 1. Oracle provides SQL*Net client binaries on FreeBSD 2. There is some configuration of Oracle SQL*Net binaries for another Unix platform and an emulator that will work. 3. Some third party has created SQL*Net client binaries for FreeBSD 4. Some third party has created a bridging solution that forwards SQL queries over a socket to a proxy on Solaris which then calls the Oracle server. 5. Oracle will provide SQL*Net client source and we can do the port ourselves. I thought you might be able to help me with solutions 2, 3, and 4. Do you know of anyone that has successfully implemented any of these? Is there a solution that I haven't thought of? Thanks in advance, Kevin Dick