Re: Multiprotocol 115.2 PCI Adapter -- MIDRANGE-L

I don't know Jeff.  I checked around.  Even though there is not enough
business to redo the link sometimes you have to consider the overall photo.
If it works on the first or second try then you are golden.  If not, the
choices are not pretty.

The SDLC card is not supported by IBM and CA/400 since SNA is dead.  The
SDLC link is not supported by NetSoft and their router.  So.....your
situation is simply not supported now and will not be so in the future.  You
are on your own.  How many hours do you have to keep this link up.  I think
you need to consider alternatives.  Probably not what you want to read.

Jerry

Jerry Draper, Trilobyte Software Systems, since 1976
Network and Connectivity Specialist -- Mac's, LAN's, PC's, Windows, Linux,
Sun, and AS/400
Representing Synapse, CLI, Nlynx, Perle, Lucent, 3Com and Others .....
(415) 457-3431; (415) 258-1658fax; jdraper@trilosoft.com

----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@fwi.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: Multiprotocol 115.2 PCI Adapter


> 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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