RE: TR on an IPCS

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Ken Slaugh
Senior Programmer/System Analyst
AS/400 Professional Network Administrator/MSE
Specialist - Client Access/400
Chouinard & Myhre, Inc.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Pence [SMTP:rp@rogerpence.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 1999 6:52 AM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Cc:   hkrebs@hkrebs.dk
> Subject:      Re: TR on an IPCS
> 
> >A customer of mine have a mod 170 with no TR-adapter directly, but
> the
> >Integrated PC Server has one.
> >Can somebody help me to tell him the steps and maybe the pittfalls
> involved
> in
> >defining this PC TR-adapter so it can be used directly from the
> AS/400?
> >
> >As always, the answer is needed now or yesterday, so please cc to
> 
> Henrik-
> 
> The LAN card on the IPCS card _cannot_ be used directly by the AS/400.
> The
> LAN card on the IPCS card can be  used to connect the AS/400 to the
> network,
> but then the AS/400's pipeline to the network is dependent on the NT
> Server
> running. When the NT Server is down, so is the AS/400's network.
> 
> The IPCS _requires_ a LAN card. You can't simply move it off the IPCS
> card
> and into a dedicated AS/400 slot. The best advice: Anytime you use the
> IPCS
> card for running a NOS such as NT, you should also purchase a separate
> LAN
> card for direct AS/400 use.
> 
> 
> rp
> 
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