On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 5:54 AM, goran bogdanovic <goran00@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > IIRC, the feature that local connections are forced automatically to use > IPC connection was existing for SqlNet up to 8.1.5...after that this > 'feature' has been removed I think. > anyhow, the use of IPC (unlike the Bequeath protocol) do require listener > to be up and running. Doesn't happen on the tests I performed. If TCP is specified, all traffic goes through the network stack, even on the local server. Results will be published after I get some time to organize them a bit. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist