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Thanks Chuck, I have configure TCP/IP for 2 previous system emulating other systems or following IBM recommendation but your response put AS/400 TCP/IP in some perspective. My current system can not be seen from my PC (client) but can be "pinged" I'm curious if the TCP/IP on the AS/400 is configured wrongly. I used Windows explorer to find the AS/400 using IP and IP name but to no success. The following are my PC IP configuration: DNS Servers: 10.248.0.30 Node Type: Hybrid IP Address: DHCP Subnet Mask: 255.255.254.0 Default Gateway: 10.160.2.254 DHCP Server: 10.160.3.6 Primary Wins 10.160.10.37 Secondary Wins 10.160.9.37 _________________________________ The following are my AS/400 IP configuration: Internet Subnet Line Line Address Mask Description Type 10.160.9.59 255.255.255.0 ENETLIN01 *ELAN 10.160.9.66 255.255.255.0 ENETLIN02 *ELAN 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.128 *LOOPBACK *NONE 162.6.61.8 255.255.255.128 TRNLINE71 *TRLAN _________________________________ Route Subnet Next Preferred Destination Mask Hop Interface *DFTROUTE *NONE 10.160.9.254 10.160.9.59 *DFTROUTE *NONE 162.6.61.1 162.6.61.8 _________________________________ Change TCP/IP Domain (CHGTCPDMN) Type choices, press Enter. Host name . . . . . . . . . . . 'sys400' Domain name . . . . . . . . . . 'company.org' Host name search priority . . . *REMOTE *REMOTE, *LOCAL, *SAME Domain name server: Internet address . . . . . . . '162.6.5.5' '162.6.6.2' '10.248.0.30' Additional Parameters Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 1-65535, *SAME Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . *UDP *UDP, *TCP, *SAME _________________________________ Change TCP/IP Attributes (CHGTCPA) Type choices, press Enter. TCP keep alive . . . . . . . . . 120 1-40320, *SAME, *DFT TCP urgent pointer . . . . . . . *BSD *SAME, *BSD, *RFC TCP receive buffer size . . . . 16384 512-8388608, *SAME, *DFT TCP send buffer size . . . . . . 16384 512-8388608, *SAME, *DFT UDP checksum . . . . . . . . . . *YES *SAME, *YES, *NO Path MTU discovery: Enablement . . . . . . . . . . *YES *SAME, *DFT, *NO, *YES Interval . . . . . . . . . . . 10 5-40320, *ONCE IP datagram forwarding . . . . . *YES *SAME, *YES, *NO IP source routing . . . . . . . *YES *SAME, *YES, *NO IP reassembly time-out . . . . . 120 5-120, *SAME, *DFT IP time to live . . . . . . . . 64 1-255, *SAME, *DFT ARP cache timeout . . . . . . . 5 1-1440, *SAME, *DFT Log protocol errors . . . . . . *YES *SAME, *YES, *NO ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Morehead" <cbmorehead@nokuse.com> To: <midrange-l@midrange.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 11:14 AM Subject: Re: TCP/IP and Components > <snip> > > First: What are the functions of ROUTES, *DFTROUTE, NEXTHOP, and > PREFERRED INTERFACE and why are they needed. > Different subnets don't normally "talk" to each other. If you want them to, > then you need to tell them how to get to each other, i.e. what "route" to > take. E.g. to get from a machine with IP 10.1.1.15 (assuming mask of > 255.255.255.0) to subnet 10.1.2.0, you need to tell the 10.1.1.15 system > where the router is, e.g. perhaps it is 10.1.2.1. This tells the 10.1.1.15 > machine to go to 10.1.2.1 for any 10.1.2.0 address. > > The *DFTROUTE option is the default route - it is tried if there are no > specific routes that meet the request. It is the same as a "default > gateway" in Windows. > > > > > Second: How should TCP/IP domain be setup and what are the relationship > and requirements between HOST NAME, DOMAIN NAME, DOMAIN > > NAME ADDRESSES as they apply to AS/400 TCP/IP domain. > This is a matter of opinion, and is very arbitrary if you are working with > an internal network. E.g. use "yourcompanyname.com" for the domain name, > and your AS/400's name for the host name. E.g. here our domain is > NOKUSE.COM. (In our situation we use the same domain as our public domain, > which does not cause us problems since we do not host our own Internet > servers in-house. If you do have Internet servers in-house then you may > want a different domain name for internal systems. Again, this is very > arbitrary.) Then if our AS/400's host name was AS400 the qualified name > would be AS400.NOKUSE.COM. > > As for IP address, choose a private IP scheme, e.g. 192.168.20.0 or > 10.1.1.0. Generally servers (i.e. anything that requires a static IP) use > the first 10 (or more if you need them) IP's. So your router may be > 10.1.1.1, your AS/400 may be 10.1.1.2, you may have 3 print servers using > 10.1.1.3-5, etc. This allows you to set your DHCP server (if you choose to > use one) to exclude that range. > > > Third: What are the functions of a *LOOPBACK address. > Loopback is for testing TCP/IP locally to make sure you at least have TCP/IP > up and running. It does not test outside the machine you are working on. > > > <snip> > > There is a lot more to all of this, but basic configuration on the AS/400 is > easy. Configuring and securing it - especially if your network is connected > to the Internet - is another animal. > > Chuck > > _______________________________________________ > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. >
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