Hi Rac gurus I am facing a peculiar issue here in 9i rac running on 2 Red hat linux nodes If one of the nodes freezes(like powering down the node)the TAF clients are taking a very long time to failover to the working node almost i can say around 10 to 15 mins I have set the following tcp parameters on the linux client side and as well on the server side echo 30 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time echo 60 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_intvl echo 3 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_retries2 echo 2 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syn_retries and also in the tnsnames i have used the enable = broken parameter for the TAF Am I missing any other parameter which is not allowing the clients to failover pretty fast. the following is the tnsname CMSPRD_BT6 = (DESCRIPTION = (LOAD_BALANCE = on) (FAILOVER = on) (enable = broken) (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = 10.30.0.37)(PORT = 1521)) (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = 10.30.0.38)(PORT = 1521)) (CONNECT_DATA = (SERVER = DEDICATED) (SERVICE_NAME = CMSPRD) (FAILOVER_MODE = (TYPE = SELECT) (METHOD = BASIC) (RETRIES = 10) (DELAY = 2) ) ) ) the local clients ie the clients connected on the working node using BEQ connections are working fine they are not getting affected. this is happening only to the the TAF connections. If anybody has faced the same issues and have solved this out please let me know thanks in advance Arun _______________________________________________________ Too much spam in your inbox? Yahoo! Mail gives you the best spam protection for FREE! http://in.mail.yahoo.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l