Adar, Did you read note 226880.1, which has step by step instructions in how to set up TAF? It explains what local_listener and remote_listener is used for and should fix your problem. I've never had a problem with a setup when following that note. Finn On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 6:30 PM, freek D'Hooge <freek.dhooge@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Hi, > > Can you post the output of the lsnrctl status command? > What I would like to see is which ip address is used by an instance to > registrate to the remote listener. It could be that your session was > connection at node 1, but was redirected to node 2 (due to server load > balancing), but was given the real address of node 2 instead of the vip > address. > > Controlling which ip will be used (real or vip) is done via the > local_listener parameter. > >