RE: FTP -- MIDRANGE-L

Yes. You will need to create an asynchronous line description on both machines and create a PPP connection profile on both machines using Operations Navigator. SystemA then dials SystemB and the PPP connection is established. After that, you can use any TCP/IP program such as FTP or Telnet to communicate between the two. I currently send file transfers in batch mode using this method. The only problem I have is that I know of no way to monitor the PPP conection status and occasionally I have to do error recovery because the FTP script fires before the PPP connection is fully established.

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-owner@midrange.com [mailto:midrange-l-owner@midrange.com]On Behalf Of tomh@simas.com
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 11:47 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: FTP

I connect to a client system using STRPASTHR, and transfer files via SNA. We vary on our lines, start QSNADS, then my STRPASTHR dials his system using POTS (plain ol' telephone service). Both systems run TCPIP, FTP, the works, and are hidden behind firewalls.

Can I use TCPIP over dialup to achieve the same functionality?

Tom Hightower
Solutions, Inc
http://www.simas.com
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"DeLong, Eric" <EDeLong@Sallybeauty.com>
Sent by: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
08/09/01 10:23 AM
Please respond to MIDRANGE-L

To: "'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'" <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
cc:
Subject: RE: FTP

I disagree (in part). While we still use SNADS for some legacy applications,
my experience is that FTP is much faster than SNADS even over the same type
of line. I recently did some informal benchmarking on file transfers
between hosts. I sent a file from a little 170 in Macon, GA, over 128kbps
frame relay to our 730 production box in Denton, TX, in half the time it
took to transfer the file from the 730 to our hot site across town via
SNADS. Snads would win the reliability prize IF the line between the boxes
is reliable, but given the situation, I think TCP/IP would handle a noisy
line or brief drop-outs better than SNA, without all the line recovery that
SNA requires. Also, TCP/IP is more efficient given the same bandwidth.

JMHO,

Eric DeLong
Sally Beauty Company
MIS-Sr. Programmer/Analyst
940-898-7863 or ext. 1863

-----Original Message-----
From: oliver.wenzel@cibavision.novartis.com
[mailto:oliver.wenzel@cibavision.novartis.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 3:10 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: AW: FTP

Hello,

if you only need to connect to another AS/400, I'd stick with SNADS! You can
run SNADS over TCP/IP -much more
reliable than FTP, IMHO.

Regards,

Ol'who just hates FTP'iver

> -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: glea@dextermag.com [SMTP:glea@dextermag.com]
> Gesendet am: Mittwoch, 8. August 2001 23:11
> An: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Betreff: FTP
>
>
>
> We are trying to set up FTP between an AS/400 in the US and another one in
> the
> UK. We know very little about it. Can anyone suggest a book (or any
> other type
> of media) that can help us learn how to do this? Presently we are using
> SNADS
> over a dialup connection that is very slow and very unreliable.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gary Lea
>
>
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