Re: TCP/IP Catch-22?

At 08:59 AM 11/5/97 -0500, Jeff Crosby wrote:
>After attending an all-day seminar last week, I decided to try TCP/IP on
>the AS/400 and connect my Win95 PC.  Everything worked OK except I can't
>configure TCP/IP on my PC to work both with the AS/400 and direct to the
>internet.  To connect to the AS/400, I had to change control panel
>settings and 'hardcode' the IP address of the AS/400.  To connect to the
>internet, I had to change the setting back to 'Obtain an IP address'.
>
>This seems like such an immediate showstopper that I must be missing
>something.  Am I?

Do you connect to the Internet via your LAN, or a modem? In the former
case, you should only need to set the gateway. In the latter, you need to
have Dial-Up networking, I think. This'll be a separate entry under the
Network setup in control panel, and this lets you have different IP
addresses on the same PC.

>Thanks for any help.
>
>Now it's off to Read The Fine Manuals.
>
>Oh - two more questions.  
>
>1) I know printer emulation won't work under TCP/IP.  Does Network
>print?
>2) Can I _really_ get rid of MSDLC and the NS router altogether with a
>TCP/IP connection?

Network print works fine. Page range is not honored, though. But I think
more fully functional printer emulation is coming, as well as defined
device names, et al.

You really _can_ get rid of those ugly things! Right on!

HTH

Vernon Hamberg
Systems Software Programmer
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
400 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55401
(612) 371-1111 x480



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