Oracle Net8 Configuration and Troubleshooting

By Jonathan Gennick, Hugo Toledo

This part of the book provides an introduction to Net8, its architecture, its functionality, and its major components . It includes the following chapters:

Chapter 1, introduces Net8 and describes the various components that combine to implement Net8's functionality. Chapter 1 also discusses stack communications and provides a brief overview of Net8's management utilities.

Chapter 2, discusses name resolution. Name resolution is the process of taking a human-readable network address and correlating it with a specific network address that is meaningful to the underlying network protocol being used. Net8 supports several different naming methods , each useful in different situations.