Hi Leroy, maybe caused by a weird (OS) kernel setting as this issue occurs on DEV only. We already discussed these different parameters and its influence on each other here (read all posts): https://www.freelists.org/post/oracle-l/DCD-dead-connection-detection-in-12c Just a guess based on your general description. Best Regards Stefan Koehler Freelance Oracle performance consultant and researcher Homepage: http://www.soocs.de Twitter: @OracleSK > Leroy Kemnitz <lkemnitz@xxxxxxxx> hat am 6. Februar 2015 um 18:09 geschrieben: > All – > > I have been having problems with database connections being ‘reset’. I am > using SQL Dev 4.0 to connect to Oracle 11.2.0.3. > > I have the SQLNET.EXPIRE_TIME = 0 in the sqlnet.ora. My firewall guys tell > me that the firewall is open and time outs are set. This is occurring > in dev but not in prod – so apparently I set something wrong in dev – but I > can’t find it. > > I have been searching thru Oracle support but no answers yet. Anyone else > have the same issue? I am running out of ideas of what to check. > > LeRoy -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l