Re: Connect via PC

  Alan, 

        If you have a Lan available, look at the "ONRAMP" style routers. 
There are a number of these, that will establish the link PPP to and ISP 
when traffic requires it. 

        JMS

On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Alan Novick wrote:

> Thanks to all who wrote.  Bryan is right, sounds like too much work.  The 
>reason
> I don't follow Bryan's suggestion is that my ISP is still having problems with
> SLIP connections and until he resolves his problem my company will be without
> email.  Trying to find an ISP will to support SLIP is like finding a needle 
>in a
> haystack.  I'm at V3R7 but as I understand it I need to be at V4R2 and on a 
>"new"
> AS/400 (mine is, after all, a year and a half old, horrors) for a PPP 
>connection.
> 
> --
> Alan Novick
> Pressman Toy Corporation
> New Brunswick, NJ
> 
> 
> 
> bdietz@3x.com wrote:
> 
> > Sounds like too much work for what you want to do.  Why not just have the
> > 400 dial your ISP, assuming OS > V3R2??
> > Then you would be able to FTP from the 400.
> >
> > Bryan Dietz
> > 3X Corp.
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Alan Novick [SMTP:anovick@bellatlantic.net]
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 1998 4:28 PM
> > > > To:   Midrange-L
> > > > Subject:   Connect via PC
> > > >
> > > > I have a PC connected to my AS/400 via TCP/IP.  The PC can also dial
> > > > my
> > > > internet account.  Can the AS/400 access the internet (ftp for
> > > > example)
> > > > through the PC?  What configuration steps do I need to take?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> 
> 
> 
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