Port Redirection
This paper collects some discussions I had on newsgroup and mailing list on oracle and the so called "port redirection".
It is intended to help ending the oracle myth regarding the use of oracle (on unix) and firewalls.
The tests have been performed on Linux, AIX, Solaris.
At the moment I haven't got any other unix-like operating system where to expand these test.
First of all the myth: