Re: Dial up TCP/IP

["Patrick Townsend" <patownsend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob,

You might want to take a look at a dial PPP router. I think Netopia has one.
It sits on your LAN and is connected to the AS/400 via Ethernet. When a
request is sent to an IP address routed via the router it will make the dial
connection automatically. I believe it will also hang up the connection when
there is no activity. This kind of connection is nice from the AS/400 side
as the remote system appears like a local LAN or Internet connection. I'm
not expert on Netopia routers, so I suggest talking to them directly if this
is of interest.

Patrick
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----- Original Message -----
From: <rob@dekko.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 12:32 PM
Subject: Dial up TCP/IP


>
> In the past we had one particular remote 400 in a foreign country.  It
used
> dial up SNA to communicate between us and them.  If we initiated the
> transaction then we would dial them.  If they initiated the transaction
> then they would dial us.  Dial up would occur automatically upon any
number
> of factors:  STRPASTHR, opening up a DDM file, whatever.  We've been kind
> of going gung ho for tcp/ip and we were wondering how to do that.
Granted,
> if this was regular internet it would not be a problem as our connection
is
> a T1.  However the remote is a dialup.  So we figure that we would have to
> put a modem on both of the 400's and configure tcp/ip that way.  Anyone
got
> a clue as to where to start?
> I know that we can configure a DDM file to use TCP/IP very simply, and we
> do for our LAN/WAN non dial up.
>
> Rob Berendt
>
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