Re: Is this a need for Anynet?

[Chuck Lewis <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

My fault - should have read again/more carefully - been REALLY busy putting out
some fires after our V4R1 to V4R5 upgrade this past weekend :-)

Chuck

Carl Galgano wrote:

> Chuck:
> It is not a Perle, it is a 5494, and the NIC cost about $600, and we have 8
> locations to bring up like this, so the customers wanted to know if there
> was a way we could do it w/o spending the ~5K for NIC cards.  Since most of
> these locations only have a few users, this will be a sufficient solution.
> Currently the 5494 'talk' over their serial port to a Motorola 3512 DSU/CSU
> connected on a private multi point circuit.  Customer wanted to be able to
> reuse as much equipment as possible, but still be able to route IP WAN
> traffic over the link.
> cjg
>
> Carl J. Galgano
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
> [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Chuck Lewis
> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 9:25 AM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Is this a need for Anynet?
>
> 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
> >
> > Carl J. Galgano
> > EDI Consulting Services, Inc.
> > 550 Kennesaw Avenue, Suite 800
> > Marietta, GA  30060
> > (770) 422-2995 - voice
> > (419) 730-8212 - fax
> > mailto:cgalgano@ediconsulting.com
> > http://www.ediconsulting.com
> > AS400 EDI, Networking, E-Commerce and Communications Consulting and
> > Implementation
> > http://www.icecreamovernight.com
> > Premium Ice Cream Brands shipped Overnight
> > FREE AS/400 Timesharing Service -
> > http://www.ediconsulting.com/timeshare.html
> > "You ain't gonna learn what you don't want to know" - rw
>
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