Flood is a subjective term - are you experiencing bandwidth issues? The behavior and feature should and will be documented going forward. Jeff On 4/8/2013 3:19 PM, breitliw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > 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