Re: AS/400 network access

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhui@xxxxxxx>]

I believe the issue here was thet they were moving from one to the other
and would only have one of the token-ring or ethernet cards in the
AS/400 at ay given time, hence the need for NT to act as a gateway
between them.

I certainly agree that there is no need for NT if the AS/400 is on both
networks or if there is another router that can handle the traffic.

  Larry Bolhuis
  Arbor Solutions, Inc
  lbolhui@ibm.net

boothm@ibm.net wrote:
> 
> What is the part I don't understand?  When the AS400 has an ethernet card,
> is on the LAN, and has an I/P address, why do you need an NT (or any
> other) intermediary?  What is the reason you can't just connect directly
> to the AS/400?  I was just on a site where the server was down yet the
> AS/400 screens were readily available all through the server's downtime.
> 
> In <35E635B7.2F22@ibm.net>, on 08/28/98
>    at 12:44 AM, Larry Bolhuis <lbolhui@ibm.net> said:
> 
> >Making the large leap that you are usting TCP/IP in your network, it is
> >simple to access the AS/400 from the Ethernet systems.  Connect the NT
> >Server to both the T/R and the Ethernet and turn on IP forwarding on the
> >NT Server.
>
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