RE: BIG Communications Problem - I'm CLUELESS...

Try checking the connection status  using the NETSTAT *CNN and see if the
connection is really active.  If not, the communication is ending without
signaling the server and you have to vary off and on the main controller to
re-establish the connection.  See if there are any software upgrades for the
Perle.  Also upgrade OS400 to V4R4.  It is much more stable ANYNET than V4R1
was.


Christopher K. Bipes     mailto:ChrisB@Cross-Check.com
Sr. Programmer/Analyst   mailto:Chris_Bipes@Yahoo.com
CrossCheck, Inc.         http://www.cross-check.com
6119 State Farm Drive    Phone: 707 586-0551 x 1102
Rohnert Park CA  94928 Fax: 707 586-1884

If consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, only geniuses work here.
Karen Herbelin - Readers Digest 3/2000


-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Lewis [mailto:clewis@iquest.net]
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 12:38 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: BIG Communications Problem - I'm CLUELESS...


Hi Folks,

Not sure WHAT is going on here. We are on a 620 running V4R1. Ethernet
NIC card in the AS/400. Frame Relay network to attach remote branches.
Cisco routers and Perle 494e control units with an Ethernet NIC.

Three times now in the last 3 or so weeks (including about 15 minutes
ago) our largest branch (2 virtual controllers in the Perle because it
has 2 twin ax cards in it) with 53 devices has called and said their
screens were blank. I look at things on the AS/400 and all looks FINE. I
ping the router AND the 2 virtual Perle control units and all looks
FINE. I pick a device that shows a signon screen and vary it off and
back on and it shows Vary On Pending and will never go active. So I end
up killing the jobs and writers, varying off the control units and the
virtual devices (one for each controller) and varying everything back on
and everything comes back up FINE.

Anybody have ANY idea WHAT is going on or what I should be checking, how
I should be checking, where I should be checking, etc. ?

Thanks in Advance :-)

Chuck
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