Re: Device Naming Using TCP/IP

At 09:48 07/17/98 -0400, Joe Giusto wrote:
>I have just started using TCP/IP to access the 400 and have noticed that
>it gives me a device name QPADEVxxxx (like when doing passthru).  Is
>there any way to get the same device name each time (like I did before
>using the TCP/IP)?  We have an application that uses the device name and
>user id to validate authority and this is going to be a mess if we start
>using TCP/IP company wide.

Named telnet devices are supported by Client Access V3R1M3 with PTFs to the 
TCP/IP and server code. Be sure to apply the latest PTFs, since there were some 
significant problems when this was first released. It's working fine now. Just 
do NOT set the CA "automatically re-connect" switch unless you are prepared to 
trap errors caused when the named device is not available. This will still 
cause a message loop situation because CA doesn't get notified of the problem 
(or ignores the notification - I don't know which) and blindly keeps retrying. 
Otherwise, it's working like a charm for us.


Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com 
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/

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