Hi, Interesting enought that I have just had a conversation with colleagues about this a couple of days ago. Briefly: (extracted from Oracle Metalink note 220970.1) "Why does netca always creates the listener which listens to public ip and not VIP only? This is for backward compatibility with existing clients: consider pre-10g to 10g server upgrade. If we made upgraded listener to only listen on VIP, then clients that didn't upgrade will not be able to reach this listener anymore. " Hope this helps. --Jozsef On 8 November 2010 14:59, fmhabash <fmhabash@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This is what i got from the default install. the local listeners are > listening on the node vip and public ip. Do we know why?and is it a good > practice to remove the public ip? > > Thank you. > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >