Re: HELP establishing dialup in an application

["Patrick Townsend" <patownsend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan,

In addition to the other replies, you might consider a dialing PPP router.
They sit on your ethernet LAN and act like a gateway. From the AS/400 point
of view you are just connecting to a certain remote IP address. When you do
the gateway makes the dial connection for you and disconnects when there is
no activity.

Patrick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Bale" <dbale@samsa.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 12:49 PM
Subject: HELP establishing dialup in an application


> I'm no comm guru, as you'll soon see.  If there's a good RTFM resource, by
> all means please point me to it.  If there's a published free application
> with source that does all this, I'd love to see it.
>
> I am trying to educate myself on what is involved in automatically
> establishing a dialup connection so that we can FTP several files from the
> AS/400 to a server once each day - with NO user intervention.  Messages
with
> "good" or "bad" results could be sent to a special message queue.
Assuming
> the configuration is "set", what does my program have to do to vary on
(and
> in what sequence)?  Should I be checking to see if some other job is using
> the same dialup line that my program wants to use?  If I have to vary
> something off to vary my ???stuff??? on, then I would want to vary that
> something back on after I'm done.
>
> What are "resources", "line descriptions", "controller descriptions", and
> "device descriptions" in the dialup communications context?
>
> - Dan Bale
> (I am *NOT* "Dale"
> http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/200105/msg00281.html )
> SAMSA, Inc.
> 989-790-0507
> DBale@SAMSA.com
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