Re: New AS/400 Update - Wrong Card On? -- MIDRANGE-L

I've been following Debbie's trevails. So close yet it isn't running. This is so IBM. I feel for her. A bright lady with the right attitude and a new out-of-the-box machine won't install and run. IBM has a long ways to go if they want to crack the new market of users.

A very long ways.
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Booth Martin
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"Gallagher, Debbie (CA - Toronto)" <dgallagher@deloitte.ca>
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12/23/1999 11:31 AM
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Subject: Re: New AS/400 Update - Wrong Card On?

Went through all the replies from the list - thanks so much to all of you
for your help. I am really struggling here.

On the AS/400, Ping 127.0.0.1 worked but Ping to anything else didn't work.
So, as Jim suggested, I looked on the back to see if the green light was on
on the AS/400 Ethernet card. Well, what a surprise, there was no cable for
the network attached to the Ethernet card!! This definitely explains my
problem with TCP/IP...

Found a network guy and got him to find me a cable to the network. Plugged
it into the Ethernet card at the back of the AS/400, and now I have another
problem. The card on the back of the AS/400 with flashing lights (green &
amber) is labelled 2724 and is for Token Ring. It has no cable plugged into
it because we don't want to use Token-Ring. However, the card labelled 2838
for Ethernet has the Ethernet cable in it, but no flashing lights. The
network guy here tells me this means that there is power in the AS/400 going
to the Token Ring card instead of to the Ethernet card.

Is this correct? How can I fix it?

Debbie Gallagher
dgallagher@deloitte.ca

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gallagher, Debbie (CA - Toronto)
> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 1999 9:01 AM
> To: Gallagher, Debbie (CA - Toronto)
> Subject: Re: New AS/400 Update - TCP/IP Problems - Jim Langston
>
>
>
> Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 14:37:10 -0800
> From: Jim Langston <jlangston@conexfreight.com>
> Subject: Re: New AS/400 Update - TCP/IP Problems
>
> What is the IP address of the PC? With your AS/400 IP address
> of 10.0.0.7 with a netmask of 255.255.255.255 that means your PC
> has to have a network address of 10.0.0.1 through 10.0.0.6 and
> 10.0.0.8 through 10.0.0.254.
>
> If you are in the same IP network and range you do not even
> need the hosts address if you specify the IP address. But, for this
> to work a few things must be ensured.
>
> 1. You must be on the same "wire". That means, no routers between
> your pc and the AS/400. Hubs are fine.
> 2. You must be in the same network subnet. if your AS/400 is 10.0.0.7
> with a netmask of 255.255.255.0 and your PC is 10.0.0.10 with netmask
> of 255.255.255.0 that is fine, they are in the same sub-net. But, if your
> PC is something like 10.0.1.10 they are not and you will have to go though
> a router.
> 3. You should then be able to ping the AS/400 from the PC and vice versa.
> ping 10.0.0.7 on the pc and ping 10.0.0.10 on the AS/400 (if that is the
> IP of
> your PC).
>
> Things to try.
> On AS/400:
> ping 127.0.0.1
>
> If this does not work, you need to add the loopback interface to the
> TCP/IP interfaces. This is not required to ping the PC but is required
> for proper TCP/IP setup.
>
> These are my settings for it:
> CFGTCP
> 1. Work with TCP/IP Interfaces
> 1 127.0.0.1 (add it)
> Line description LIND *LOOPBACK
> Subnet Mask SUBNETMASK '255.0.0.0'
> Type of Service TOS *NORMAL
> Maximum transmission unit MTU 576
> Autostart AUTOSTART *YES
> and the rest leave default.
>
> In host table entries, you should have the 127.0.0.1
> with the aliases of LOOPBACK, LOCALHOST, and whatever
> you want to call your machine, I call mine AS400.CONEX but
> that is arbitrary.
>
> Here you would put your PC if you wished rather than using a DNS
> server. Ad the ip address and a few aliases for it. some aliases are
> required for APPN over SNA, etc.. but you can add more.
>
> At this point, if you can ping 127.0.0.1 that means that tcp is running
> on your AS/400. To see if you can see the world you want to ping
> your PC by it's IP address.
>
> If you can not ping any of the other machines on the same wire with
> the same sub-net then it is probably a physical problem. Is the light
> on the little convert attached to the back of the AS/400 Ethernet
> card? Unplug the ethernet cable going to the cable and plug it back
> in, does the light change? I think there are 3 of them.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim Langston
>
>
>
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