Re: Is this a need for Anynet?

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Carl,

  Just a few tips from one who's done several of these. DLSw works great
once configured. The controller still appears as a *LAN device on the
400 - that's part of the 'magic' in DLSw. Now if you have IBM routers
the link will come up clean and the 5494 will be configured mostly
automatically. If you have Cisco it may or may not, they have some
mystery bug in IOS. If it doesn't you will want to understand the
process of 'bit flipping' MAC addresses from MSB to LSB format, *OR* you
will want to use an address that is the same when represented either
way. Since this MAC address is 'made up' in the router give it something
like 4200 0000 0066. THen use the same address on the 400's APPC
controller.

  Hope this helps!

  Any questions? Just ask!

 - Larry

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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