Re: re-IPL necessary

Jim, what is your internal IP-scheme ? Is it 192.168.0.x ?
The console over that serial cable uses a "modem-device" and a ppp-like
connection with tcpip adress pair of 192.168.0.1 and 0.2 to establish a
session between pc and AS/400.
You CANNOT use this network numbers for other purposes, nor can you
change it for that serial connection.
I had very strange results before I found out about this.
YES, there is an option in DST to change that network numbers, but as
I found out in long experiments with several IBM calls this doesn't always
"stick" to another number, sometimes on next IPL you are back on the old IPs.

HTH, regards from Germany, Philipp Rusch


Jim_Hawkins@eimoam.com schrieb:

> To answer a few of the questions that have been asked.
>
> Since I am not physically at the college right now, I have been unable to
> look, and have not received a response to some of the e-mails I have sent.
> But here goes.
>
> There are no Twinax devices connected to the system.  I am not sure, but I
> believe that the console is connected via a serial connection.  And there
> is no device that seems to be able to connect.  Since we IPL with the
> "white button" we will always get an abnormal last power down.  Disk
> capacity is less then 40% used.
> The DHCP poses an interesting concept as they did some major changes to the
> network over the holiday break, however if the console is connected via a
> serial connection I would expect that to remain up.
> In the cases I have looked at, there appears to be no one actually working
> on the system when the connection drops, so I have no job logs to look at.
> So far, we have not identified any kind of a pattern that we can monitor
> for.
>
> Jim Hawkins
> IBM Certified Specialist AS/400 RPG IV Programmer
> Programmer/Analyst
> Eimo Americas
>
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