Re: Is this a need for Anynet?

[Chuck Lewis <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Carl,

Why are you trying to avoid a NIC in the Perle ?

That is what we are running by the way and I forgot to mention that or assumed
you were using a NIC in the Perle (didn't realize you could do it without one)
?-)

Just curious.

Chuck

Carl Galgano wrote:

> Thanks to all that responded.  We are trying to avoid buying an Ethernet
> card for the 5494 (we are trying to hook up some low volume plants to our
> clients network, and would prefer not to buy the Ethernet cards).  We will
> be using DLSw.  We have done many of these type of connections, but always
> put a LAN card in the 5494 and configured the APPC controller as a *LAN
> (rather than *SDLC) connection.  The part that was throwing me is when you
> config the AS400 APPC controller, attached as *LAN, you need a MAC address
> of the 5494.  We will use the MAC address of the E0 interface on the CISCO
> and see how that works.
> cjg
>
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