RE: Is this a need for Anynet?

[Marc Rauzier <marc.rauzier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le mar. 06 nov. 2001 15:21:00, Carl Galgano écrivait:

> 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
>

You do not have to know the MAC address. You just have to turn on the
automatic configuration feature of the LAN card of the AS/400. When it
receives the first packets, it will create the APPC controller and the
RWS one (only if the system value QAUTORMT is on).

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Cordialement/Best regards
Marc Rauzier

Opinions I stated here are my own.