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Chuck, We did something similar at on of our customers earlier this year, although we only had one remote location. Upgraded the 494E to a 594E(with ethernet AND twinax), added a Cisco 1601 on the /400 side, and put an ethernet card in the /400. Also, we kept the 56K leased line. The 594E has a way of fooling itself into thinking there is a frame connection. So we kept our CSU/DSU's, got the /400 talking to the network, and got to start taking the twinax cards out of the PC's, all for about $6000-$7000 total. Perle tech support was very helpful throughout the process. By the way, they noticed no degradation in response time, even though they added another half a dozen connections to the /400 through the new ethernet connection at the remote site. Lou Schmaus CCA, Inc. Jackson, NJ 08527 lschmaus@link400.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Chuck Lewis <clewis@iquest.net> To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 6:33 AM Subject: MPTN/Anynet... on V4R1 > 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 +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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