MPTN/Anynet... on V4R1

[Chuck Lewis <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Folks,

We are looking at dumping our 56k leased lines and going with frame
relay. We are located in one state and until VERY recently frame was not
a good deal. That changed...

We have NO LANs (yes) and are using Perle 494E control units. MCI is who
we are working with and we will be using a Cisco 2610 here and the
1750's at the remotes.

The question comes in how to connect up the Perle control units.

Turns out our choice are:

(1) "turn MPTN/Anynet on on the 400" and stick ethernet cards in the
Perle units. This strips off SNA and routing bits and wraps it in IP.

(2) Run DLSW (Data Link Switching) on the routers to enable routing SNA.

The down side of this is that it COULD slow things down with the
overhead involved. We have sub second response time now but I CERTAINLY
do not want to do anything to jeopardize that.

We were leaning towards #2 because it was going to be the most cost
effective at this time (knowing that it is preferable to do pure IP)...

Also, won't either scenario require a NIC card in the AS/400 ?

Any thoughts ?

TIA

Chuck

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