Re: AnyNet connect problems

Pete,

In a message dated 97-07-24 22:36:47 EDT, you write:

> I'm having an awful time getting CA for Win95 V3R1M2 to connect to our
>  AS/400 at V3R1M0. The connection attempt just seems to time out most of
>  the time, but occasionally it succeeds. This indicates to me that the
>  configuration parameters are reasonably OK. I've moved the AS/400 memory
>  out of *BASE, changed the prestart jobs to run at priority 5, and still
>  nothing. If I run NETSTAT *CNN, I can see a connection as soon as I
>  click OK on the login dialog, but then things just go to sleep. Four out
>  of five times it eventually fails. There is never any significant
>  activity in any of the jobs in QSYSWRK or QSERVER. We use dynamically
>  assigned workstation addresses, so I thought that maybe the AS/400 was
>  spinning its wheels talking to the DNS, which is also the DHCP server,
>  so as an experiment, I disabled remote DNS lookup completely, used
>  NETSTAT on the PC to determine my IP address, added that to the AS/400
>  host table (two entries - one with and one withoug the goofy ibm.com
>  syntax), stopped and started TCP and host servers. It made absolutely no
>  difference. I still connect about one time out of five. I've also
>  noticed that if I set the router keep-alive timer to a reasonable value,
>  when I eventually do connect, the connection drops as soon as the timer
>  fires, issuing a message that there was no response to the keep-alive
>  message. I've gotten around this problem by setting the timer to 30 min
>  in the router config. The AS/400 setting doesn't seem to matter. I can
>  connect reliably with native TCP (which works great btw), but need
>  AnyNet because we need SNA file transfer and static device names (BPCS).
>  Does anybody have any pearls of wisdom? 

Well, I'll forego my usual spiel about the evils of CA and how ANY
third-party product (EVEN Rumba) would be better, as I've addressed those
pretty thoroughly already.  One thing you didn't mention is HOW you're trying
to connect.  Twinax, Ethernet, Token Ring, ASYNCH?  I've had problems
connecting through the FSIOP over ASYNCH due to speed limitations, but what
connection method are YOU using?

Regards,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@AOL.COM

"The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary."  --
Vidal Sassoon
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