First, thanks everyone for all your assistance with my many newbee RAC questions. You've been a huge help! I just did my first failover test, and everything looked fine. When I brought the failed rac node up again, the client connections were still all connected to the node that did NOT fail. From what I read in Oracle's FAQ, "all the types of load balancing available currently (9i-10g) occur at connect time. I'm running 11gR2.. Is this still the case? Or is there a way to re-balance client connections in 11gR2 once a node rejoins the cluster. Thank you!