'ORA-12571: TNS:packet writer failure' error while calling procedure from VC++

Question

hi all,
i am writing stored procedures and calling these from vc++. I have one stored procedure in that all
in and out perameters are numeric. When i am calling these procedure i am able to get the values properly. But in another procedure one in perameter is varchar and one out perameter is varchar. When i am calling these procedure from vc++ the error i am getting is "ORA-12571: TNS:packet writer failure". I test my vc++ code on different computers but its giving the same errors. I think ora-12571 error is when i can't communicate with oracle. But other stored procedures(in and out perameters are numbers) and sql statements are running properly. Only these stored procedure which has in and out perameters as varchar is giving me the above said problem. My out perameter in this procedure strtax is of type varchar and the length 100. Is it the problem. Please suggest me how to over come this problem.
thanks in advance,
with regards
vali.

Answer 1

Hi
We recently changed our load balancer to a new load balancer. we get this error only after the load balancer change.
When the error occurs, I could see ORA-12571 error message only in the application error log. The listener.log has only the following message about TNS 12502. It does not have any message about ORA -12571.
TNS-12502: TNS:listener received no CONNECT_DATA from client
12-MAR-2010 12:23:26 * (CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=AppName)(CID=(PROGRAM=c:\wind ows\system32\inetsrv\w3wp.exe)(HOST=WEB02)(USER=NETWORK?SERVICE))) * (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=172.x.x.x.x)(PORT=2202)) * establish * AppName * 0
12-MAR-2010 12:23:26 * (CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=AppName)(CID=(PROGRAM=c:\wind ows\system32\inetsrv\w3wp.exe)(HOST=WEB02)(USER=NETWORK?SERVICE))) * (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=172.x.x.x.x)(PORT=2203)) * establish * AppName * 0
12-MAR-2010 12:23:26 * (CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=AppName)(CID=(PROGRAM=c:\wind ows\system32\inetsrv\w3wp.exe)(HOST=WEB02)(USER=NETWORK?SERVICE))) * (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=172.x.x.x.x)(PORT=2204)) * establish * AppName * 0
12-MAR-2010 12:24:09 * 12502
TNS-12502: TNS:listener received no CONNECT_DATA from client
Thanks
Ashok