It floods the network with unnecessary traffic. At least a) document this behaviour b) give us the option to disable it On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:08:49 -0400, Jeff Smith <jeff.d.smith@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: So, another clarification - we're doing doing a PING either. We're doing > a TNSPING. > And it is actually being used - not in a super secret way - if you > mouse over the connection label in the tree you'll see a 'Last Ping: > XXX ms' if the listener was able to respond, e.g. db is up. > > > So some help here - what is 'bad' about this behavior? > -- Wolfgang Breitling Centrex Consulting Corporation -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l