RE: Non-TCP/IP based remote AS/400 connectivity solution

Chris, NOT trying to be a butt here, and you bring up some great ideas, but
you would STILL be SOL if TCP/IP was down, had to be restarted, etc. 

JMHO...

Chuck


-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Bipes
 
<We have an old protocol converter with a modem attached.  It is a Trulynk
box under the name of Black Box.  Be dial into that at 19200, not too bad
for 5250 emulation only.  Rock solid and not dependant on your ethernet.
BUT cheaper would be to add a second ethernet card on a different IOP on a
different BUSS.  Then create a *virtualip on your AS400 with a route from
each physical ethernet card's IP.  Now if one ethernet fails, you can
reconnect to the same virtual IP via the secondary route.  Now both routes
can be in different subnets if you have multiple subnets.  I would
definitely plug each ethernet card into different switches.  So if you have
a space on an IOP in your system for a second Ethernet, much cheaper than
protocol converters and modems.  Provides automatic failover for all IP
connectively including SNAoverIP.>