RE: Connecting 9402-200 to Linksys router

Linksys DSL routers use DHCP to assign IP addresses to the clients (machines).

You may be able to go into the Linksys router and manually set aside an IP, but
I don't think you even have to do that.

Easiest way:
Go to one of the PCs that is connected to the Linksys router and do:
start -> run -> cmd
ipconfig

You will see in that list an IP address for that PC.   It will most likely be
something like 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.0.2 or so.  Or it could be something
like 10.0.0.1.  Make a note of what that IP address is and what it's subnet
mask is.  The subnet mask will probably be 255.255.255.0.  Unless the subnet
mask is anything different you shouldn't have a problem.

Now, leave a little room for other pcs and give your AS/400 an IP address after
your PCs.  If the mask is 255.255.255.0 you can give it just about any ip with
the same first 3 numbers, so 192.168.0.100 would work.

The only time you are going to run into trouble is if you get a lot of PCs on
your Linksys router and the Linksys router tries to assign the same IP you 
manually
assigned (which is why you don't want to use 192.168.0.2).

I do not know how the Linksys router will feel about proxying information to the
internet for an IP address it didn't assign, but my feeling is that the Linksys
router just isn't going to care and you'll be good to go.

From: "James Newman" <jabezinc@charter.net>

I posted a message a couple of months ago regarding my attempt to connect my 
9402-200 running V3R2 to my home network through my Linksys DSL router/hub 
(BEFSR41).  If you've done this successfully and wouldn't mind a question or 
two, I'd appreciate it if you'd contact me offline.

I'm not trying to use the 400 as a web server or anything fancy - I just want 
to be able to run emulation and file transfer from my 2 pc's to the 400.

I've got a copy of IBM's TCP/IP Fastpath Setup manual and I'm hung on the step 
where I have to give the AS/400 and address.  What do I use?  I'm not familiar 
with TCP addressing schemes.

TIA.


Jim Newman

Regards,

Jim Langston