Re: Cisco DLSw problems

Hello Mike,
looks like a "keep alive" problem to me.
Watch out for spoofing, if it is configured on your ciscos, it is fooling the
AS/400 system in not sending the "keep alive" polling packets to the remote
5494 controllers, it just tells the AS/400 it did, but it doesn't put them on 
the
WAN line. So the AS/400 is no longer able to know about the exact status
of the remote sites. This especially comes up in periods with low traffic or
some (longer) pauses between the data-packets.
Turn spoofing off, and it should be running all ok.

Regards from germany, Philipp Rusch

Mike.Crump@saint-gobain.com schrieb:

> We used to use BayNetworks routers and DLSw.  This setup actually worked
> very well and was very stable once we finally had everything configured
> properly.
>
> However, at the end of last year we swapped out the routers for Cisco
> routers.  Now, we regularly have problems.  We do have regular performance
> problems and we also have numerous outages where we have to reset the
> AS/400 configuration objects and turnoff, turnon the control units (5494).
> We are able to confirm both of these situations with APING.  Pings to the
> router will work with decent response but APINGS will either be slow or no
> response in accordance to the problem.  Our comm. guy (who does a great
> job) repeatedly says things are ok.  Evidently things aren't and I'm
> looking to find if anyone has had similar experiences or any
> recommendations.  I've been through the Cisco site without much luck and
> right now don't have any access to anything but PING and APING to diagnose
> the problem.....
>
> Michael Crump
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