Hi Cheng Thanks again . I was looking into the active passive failover . What TCP settings need to be changed for windows server so that the failover happens in say about 5-8 secs. regards Hrishy --- LS Cheng <exriscer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I thought you mean failover at run time so I > suggested FCF. > > If you wanna use as active passive free failover it > will work but you will > have a problem, depending on platforms tcp timeout > can be quite long > > The other option is use clusterware and set up > active passive. I did this > configuration 2 months ago using application VIPs > and it works very well and > stable. > > Thanks > > -- > LSC > > On Jan 30, 2008 10:19 AM, hrishy > <hrishys@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi > > > > Can TAF be used to detect node failover and > redirect > > the connections to a new node using retry and > delay so > > all my clients detect that host db1 is down and > need > > to start connecting to db2 . > > > > I am not using RAC.Oracle version is 10.2 > > > > > > > > GRID = > > (DESCRIPTION = > > (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = > > my.db1.com)(PORT = 1521)) > > (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = > > my.db2.com)(PORT = 1521)) > > (LOAD_BALANCE = yes) > > (CONNECT_DATA = > > (SERVICE_NAME = grid) > > (FAILOVER_MODE = > > (TYPE = SELECT) > > (METHOD = BASIC) > > (RETRIES = 1) > > (DELAY = 1) ) > > ) > > ) > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________________ > > Sent from Yahoo! Mail - a smarter inbox > http://uk.mail.yahoo.com > > > > -- > > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it now. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/ -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l