Re: Multiprotocol 115.2 PCI Adapter

[Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxx>]

Jerome Draper wrote:
 
> Once the NetSoft router is installed (easy) and working (the trick) either
> client will work as the router insulates the client from the hardware.  That
> was IBM's SNA objective but there proved to be too many layers of overhead.
> I would suggest you move to TCP/IP but, knowing you from the list, you must
> have some overriding need to implement SDLC.

I can get an Synapse SDLC card for $369 and I know it will work.  The
IBM Multiprotocol PCI Adapter is $269 and, while you seem to think it
will work, it could be tricky and chew up that $100 difference in my
time in pretty short order.

I would gladly go to TCP/IP if it were easy and cheap.  We have a leased
line to that building.  There is not a lot of data transmitted, but it
does need to be up all day, continuously.  There is no reason to spend a
lot of money for an overengineered solution.  Can I do a TCP/IP solution
over that leased line using my 15-year-old IBM 3865 modems that still
work?  For not a lot of money?  I don't mean to come across
sarcastically, there simply isn't enough business reason, IMO, to build
a whole new way to make this connection when all it takes is a new
card.  If the IBM card, at $100 cheaper, will work, then I want to save
that $100.  (In addition, the IBM Multiprotocol Card is more versatile
in case something _does_ change in the future.)  

Thanks.

-- 
-Jeff
The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily 
the opinion of my company.  Unless I say so.
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