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We are doing the same with an International solution where the customer has lots of 5394,s and 5494,s sitting in the remote offices that used to run over X.25. The provider is IBM Network Services and the routers are IBM 2210's, which will spoof the SNA links. The things we have been told to watch out for are things like retry limits, for if the network goes down to ensure the controller will come on line with no intervention. We are also making sure all the 5494's are on the latest code release, I think they have to be on at least 3.1? Thanks Bleddyn http://www.morpheus.ltd.uk - home to the AS/400 eBusiness Mailing List -----Original Message----- From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Carl Galgano Sent: 12 May 1998 14:10 To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com Subject: Re: 5494, frame relay, and parms... Larry's comments are right on. We have a client doing SNA over frame relay and we are using Vanguard MP routers (Motorola) and that is exactly what the Vanguard units do. The "spoof" (a technical term) the AS400 and the remote 5494 into thinking SNA frames are being passed from end to end. They work very well. Carl At 10:53 PM 5/10/98 -0400, you wrote: >mcrump@ballfoster.com wrote: >> >> We have 20+ 5494's that we just converted from a private pt to pt network... >> >> To the AS/400 and the 5494's they look like they are attached to a LAN. We >> are bridging the SNA traffic.... >> > If the environment is as you describe it with SNA bridging I believe >you will never have solid reliability. The problem being that SNA is >timing out when the 'clound' (frame relay network) gets busy - >Especially if your CIR is low and traffic is high. Bridging will simply >carry the SNA polling over the cloud so when the clound is busy the >responses take too long and in some cases actually never get there. > > To solve this you really need routers that are using DLSW (Data Link >Switching) instead of bridging. DLSW on the router nearest the AS/400 >will 'lie' to the AS/400 by responding to the AS/400's polling, the >routers on the far end will do the same for the 5494's. Only after the >routers finally give up on communicating to one another (such as when >CISCO stuff on AT&T's Frame go casters up) will the local router finally >tell the AS/400 that it cannot contact the 5494's. In the mean time >even when the 'cloud' is swamped the AS/400 believes that the 5494's are >still there and happy. This has the desireable side effect of reducing >WAN traffic because all those SNA polls don't hit the cloud. > > Now if you are already using DLSW or similair technology then I'm all >wet and you need to raise some of those time out values..... > > Larry Bolhuis > Vice President > Arbor Solutions, Inc > Grand Rapids, MI > >> >> Michael Crump >> Technical Project Leader >> >> +--- >> | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! >> | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. >> | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. >> | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: >david@midrange.com >> +--- > >+--- >| This is the Midrange System Mailing List! >| To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. >| To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. >| Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com >+--- > Carl J. Galgano http://cgalgano.home.mindspring.com mailto:cgalgano@ediconsulting.com EDI Consulting Services, Inc. 540 Powder Springs Street Suite C19 Marietta, GA 30064 770-422-2995 +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +--- +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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