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AnyNet shouldn't affect existing traffic - it's just another TCP/IP
connection. It *may* affect processing on the various systems because of
the encapsulation overhead. I would only expect to see that on a
CPU-bound system though.

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:06:53 -0500, "Simpson, Doug"
<dsimpson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> Thanks to all for their responses - 
> I am looking up some of the links right now and found this that has some
> info - http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/gg244395.pdf
> BTW - We are trying to get rid of the E50 which runs v3r1.
> The other machines are running 4.5 (which will be upgraded to 5.3), 5.2
> and
> 5.1 and they all have ethernet cards and they use them now.
> When I enable "AnyNet" will that effect the existing traffic?
> Thanks appreciate your time,
> Doug
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pat Barber [mailto:mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 10:58 AM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: connecting 2 as400s
> 
> Since all the new "I" boxes come standard with a
> 2 line SDLC card, I don't the handwriting is quite as clear as you would
> think.
> 
> FTP and ethernet are really sporty but they are not up to the "safe" and
> "dependable" factor of SDLC/SNA.
> 
> I wouldn't plan on seeing the end of that anytime soon.
> 
> Ethernet is just another way to get there, not the only way.
> 
> The "cheap way" is not always the "best way".
> 
> 
> Pete Massiello wrote:
> 
> > One thing to remember is if your getting a new i5, is that the 
> > embedded Ethernet controller does NOT support SNA.  It will allow 
> > ANYNET over TCP, but you can no longer do straight SNA out of your 
> > 5706 Ethernet card.  So, it looks like we can see the hand writing on 
> > the wall, that IBM is making its move that TCP is the preferred delivery
> mechanism.
> 
> 
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